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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-06-18 05:16 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?

I assume the developer needs to create an account somewhere to upload
click packages? Is that under ubuntu.com?

Marc.