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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-10-10 04:07 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's been an exciting month in the click appstore. The contest really
> put all our assumptions to the test and had us on our feet fixing and
> improving things left and right.
> We still have a while to go, but things are looking smoother every day.
> 
> One thing that became obvious very quickly was that verifying custom
> namespaces (com.yourdomain) is painful and hard to automate. It also
> adds little or no value to users and developers.
> I was wondering if we shouldn't just lock everyone into a
> com.ubuntu.developer.* namespace, and keep custom namespaces for
> specific exceptions (maybe for specific large companies and other
> special cases).
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 

I would simply stop verifying them, but not force people to use a specific
namespace.

AFAIK, other things that use a similar namespace approach don't actually verify
them either.

Marc.