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[David Pitkin <david.pitkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We need a few more abstractions here for transferring apps, having multiple apps with the same company name, having one developer and multiple companies these are all real world examples, individuals are not a good identifier but company name is a little better.

On Jun 18, 2013, at 17:16, Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
> 
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> Martin
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