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[Chris Timberlake <game64@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may have better luck just having the AppStore register the developer's
PPA or Repository. Then implementing a pay wall; after the user pays the
ppa is added and app is downloaded. Then you could offer the developer an
ability to check license/purchases through a library. Then developers would
just submit their App and PPA through an online portal. You wouldn't have
to find the PPA's the developers would add their own. Then you server would
record package numbers and the AppStore would check for updates on a cron.

Flow Of Purchase:
1. User Finds App.
2. User Pays for App.
3. PPA Is added and App is installed.
4. App is ran user is checked and a certification is made for that machine.
So the user can use offline.


Personally, for an AppStore I'd just abandon PPA's all together. They don't
fit into an AppStore nicely.


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> That's a possibility. Let's all take a breath and remember that AppCenter
> is a ways off still from being a full service, and right now we're focusing
> on getting Luna finally out the door.
>
> After Luna's release, we can discus how we want to handle third-party apps
> in greater detail. Just a moonshot idea: host our own repos for it so we
> can have paid software as well. ;)
> On Apr 7, 2013 9:16 AM, "Joaquín Padilla Rivero" <jpadilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>  Developers ought to know that you're working on AppCenter to replace
>> the USC. How about you people use this "Elementary compliant 3rd party PPA"
>> in order to build the future "highlights" section of the AppCenter?
>>
>> On 06/04/13 19:09, Daniel Foré wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Mario that we need to solve this ASAP. However I also agree
>> with Cody that we can't be responsible for packaging. We need to figure out
>> an app submission process that puts the responsibility on these 3rd parties
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Daniel Foré
>>
>> El abr 6, 2013, a las 6:20 a.m., Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>
>> escribió:
>>
>>   We should only create a ppa and put some rules for it. Every 3rd party
>> developer who wants his app in this ppa should email one of us and then we
>> will review the app quality and approve/disapprove its adding. That's all.
>>
>> Il sab, apr 6, 2013 at 3:18 ,Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff <
>> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>>
>>  I've foreseen it and registered a blueprint about it a long time ago:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/non-official-ppas
>>  Sadly, all my attempts to implement it were futile. Good luck with that.
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/6 Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> I wrote almost every third party's debian packaging so that would be me
>>> maintaining that. I'm up for it, it's just possible it could get out of
>>> control.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cody I mean that every third party developer should be able to put his
>>>> apps in one of our ppa just asking us. We don't have to maintain anything.
>>>> They must have care of them own stuffs.
>>>>
>>>> Il sab, apr 6, 2013 at 2:57 ,Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha
>>>> scritto:
>>>>
>>>>  We need to figure out someway to showcase them, but my opinion is
>>>> that we already have too much to maintain without taking on third parties.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>  3rd party apps which follow elementary style are popping up like
>>>>> mushrooms in the last period. The community developed a lot of awesome
>>>>> applications like Birdie, Foto, Agenda and many others.
>>>>>
>>>>>  My idea is to put all of them in one ppa, owned by elementary-os
>>>>> launchpad team, in order to have them in only one place. In this way I
>>>>> would be able to have a better platform where get elementary apps to
>>>>> sponsor in AppCenter.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Moreover a bigger range of users and testers would encourage
>>>>> developers to build an elementary app.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Best regards,
>>>>> Mario
>>>>>
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