ubuntu-appstore-developers team mailing list archive

[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/26/2013 03:03 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> since the beginning of this project there was discussion about
>> supporting the notion of downloadable content.
>>
>> This would for example be relevant in a game where you can download (and
>> potentially buy) new maps, new levels or buy extra content for other apps.
>>
>> As this feels like a bigger project right now, it might be good to
>> define its priority first. Alexander, Pat: can you share any information
>> about this?
>>
>> Dependencies of the project would be:
>>  - Pre-dependency: purchasing functionality.
>>  - App store: app authors will want to upload the content
>>               there, associate an app with the content. Have
>>               billing work through the app store.
>>  - SDK/Platform API: it'd be good if there was a standard way to
>>                      handle downloadable content.
>>  - Security: do we have any security concerns?
>>  - Client: to be hooked up with ubuntu-download-manager and
>>            client-side purchasing bits.
>>
>> Questions to start the conversation might be:
>>  - Who'd be willing to help spec this?
>>  - How much work do we expect this to be?
>>  - Where will the lion share of work happen?
>>  - Who will own this sub-project?
> When I asked Pat last time he said we need it for OLS..  which is
> usually a placeholder for essential items for shipping a real phone,
> rather than just ship a distro/platform.
>
> I think it needs to be a cross effort of security, foundations and OLS
> again and should be squeezed into the same effort that will deal with
> general payments and we should have code etc. at alpha/demo state by
> 13.10 I believe.
So far we have deferred this and viewed it as a slightly lower priority.
My understanding is that many apps have their own methods for getting
additional in-app content. We had not yet considered any work on this
prior to Oct.

CC David for his inputs.

Pat
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Have a great day,
>>  Daniel
>>
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