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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:16:50PM -0300, 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?

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?

> 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.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]