On 13-06-18 07:37 PM, David Pitkin wrote: > We need a few more abstractions here for transferring apps, having multiple > apps with the same company name, having one developer and multiple companies > these are all real world examples, individuals are not a good identifier but > company name is a little better.
I believe we suggested using com.ubuntu.$user or net.launchpad.$user for developers who don't own a top-level domain. Presumably companies will want to use their own domain name, which will be a namespace they will own. Marc. > > On Jun 18, 2013, at 17:16, Martin Albisetti <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Loïc Minier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> In the mean time, another idea came up: that we should just provide a >>> default namespace, for instance net.launchpad.$user.$app. This would be >>> great to ease bootstraping of new developers and would limit risks of >>> small abuses/errors (e.g. inventing domain names that don't exist). >> >> >> Yes, indeed good idea. The only part that I think isn't great is that >> it implies a user would need a Launchpad account, which we very much >> don't want to enforce (as per the request of the people talking to the >> app development companies). >> I assume the ease of using Launchpad is that it already has a registry >> for user names? >> Click packages doesn't talk to Launchpad at all, and I want to keep it that >> way. >> Can we use com.ubuntu.$user.$app? >> Where $user is something specified by the developer and guaranteed to >> be unique by the software center server? >> >> -- >> Martin >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
