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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-06-18 07:37 PM, David Pitkin wrote:
> 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.

I believe we suggested using com.ubuntu.$user or net.launchpad.$user for
developers who don't own a top-level domain.

Presumably companies will want to use their own domain name, which will
be a namespace they will own.

Marc.


> 
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Martin
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