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[Ricardo Kirkner <ricardo.kirkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to start the work to allow uploading click packages to the
AppStore directly from within the SDK by proposing some ideas and getting
feedback on them.

The current goal, as we understand it is to:
- allow developers to upload a new click package directly from the SDK
- allow developers to upload an update to an existing click app directly
from the SDK

In order to meet these initial goals I propose the following approach:

1. Provide an API in the Click-Updown service that
- allows uploading a click app
- is authenticated
- will verify the uploaders credentials to correspond to an existing Ubuntu
One account
- will verify the requested application already exists in the MyApps catalog
- will verify that the uploader is the application owner (or has the
equivalent permissions)

2. Write a reference implementation library that knows how to interact with
- the Ubuntu One account API to validate the user's credentials and embed
them properly into the upload request
- the Click-Updown API to submit the upload request

3. Write a reference implementation script that will allow simple uploading
of click packages from the CLI

Limitations
----------------

In the first iteration, the click app must already exist in the MyApps
catalog, and the user will be requested to create it through the web if
that is not the case. In future iterations this might be extended to allow
registering the app directly from within the SDK.

The initial version of these APIs will only support uploading of click
packages, but not publishing them automatically. Changes the to state of a
click app must be performed by following the existing web-based review
flows.


Let me know what you think of this and of any other details that might be
relevant to provide the simplest and most useful experience to developers.

Ricardo