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["Alejandro J. Cura" <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM, James Tait <james.tait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 19/09/13 15:33, Alejandro J. Cura wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:14 AM, James Tait
>> <james.tait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It looks like what the Play Store has that we don't is the
>>> publisher of the app.  We have Company Name in the data we get
>>> from SCA, it should be trivial to expose it via the Index in the
>>> search results. How much effort would it be to update the Click
>>> scope to display it?
>>
>> It's easy to add a such a field on our side, yes. We'd only need
>> some design input for it.
>>
>> What should we show if the developer is an individual? Android
>> seems to show the developer's full name. Can you provide this on
>> the same json field?
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> I think that'd be contingent on devportal passing it through to
> Software Centre, and Software Centre passing it to the Index.  That
> could be done as a distinct field, or we could pass the developer's
> name in the Company Name field if no Company Name is specified - there
> are trade-offs between purity of the data and the amount of work
> required in each component, but either way is technically possible.

I've added unity-scope-click and click-package-index to the bug for
this feature:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/click-package-index/+bug/1226265

cheers,
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alecu