On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:16:50PM -0300, Martin Albisetti 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? > > Yes. I forget: do SSO tokens (i.e. login.launchpad.net, not a full LP > account) have a sensible name associated with them, or are they just a > hash?
They have a concept of "nickname" which is constructed based on the user's name and/or email address (hand waving here, Ricardo knows the details). It's not a UUID, but it may not always be pretty. >> Click packages doesn't talk to Launchpad at all, and I want to keep it that >> way. >> Can we use com.ubuntu.$user.$app? > > Let's not do exactly that in case somebody picks, say, "juju" as their > user name and confuses us all. Something like > com.ubuntu.developer.$user.$app would be OK though, bearing in mind that > these are mostly-autogenerated names and only need to be readable rather > than necessarily very short. > > However, that still requires a user namespace; so either your server > talks to Launchpad, or it maintains its own account management. Right, I would rather we have our own account management, either by using what SSO already has, or by having the concept of a unique username in 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
