On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 13-10-17 03:27 AM, Michael Nelson wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Martin Albisetti >> <martin.albise...@canonical.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Marc Deslauriers >>> <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: >>>> We care what it looks like, we just aren't going to enforce it until it >>>> becomes >>>> a problem. >>>> >>>> Isn't it already hidden? >>> >>> Yes to the user, no to the developer. Which is why it feels odd making >>> the developer decide about something that isn't really user visible. >>> >> >> +1 for removing the unnecessary decision for the moment. Given that we >> haven't (yet) implemented an automated verification of the domains, >> let's not let devs choose (and communicate) them unnecessarily. >> Automatically assigning com.ubuntu.developer domains would seem to >> sanest option and create the least work right now (as it avoids the >> possibility of reaching a problem that we need to clean-up and start >> enforcing). > > But now you get back to the issue of having name collisions, which allowing > the > developer to pick their own namespace, as on android, solves. > > If you tie the application namespace to the developer username, you then can't > have the possibility of an application moving between developers without the > user losing all their settings. > > For example, forcing com.ubuntu.developer.joeemployee.facebookapp instead of > allowing com.facebook.facebookapp means that when Joe Employee is no longer a > Facebook employee, the app can't be migrated to a new account without losing > user data.
True - I'd not taken that into account. That would potentially be a worse problem than the hypothetical situation of needing to remove an app and re-assign a namespace. > > I don't see why this is a problem for us, but isn't for other platforms. Also fair point. I'd thought it was... > > >> >> IMHO, enabling people to choose com.google.whatever is only going to >> lead to pain later. It really is user-visible information at the >> moment, as per Jamie's Permy app - "Easily see the permissions of your >> apps with Permy. Includes viewing the policy vendor, policy version, >> template, groups, APP_ID, and more." which will help people decide >> whether they are comfortable with the permissions of an app. > > Much like it is visible on Android, and as far as I know, they don't validate > namespaces on their platform either. OK. If that's the case, then I agree :) -Michael -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : ubuntu-appstore-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
