Plasma Active App Store Notes

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> There are a few things that I would like to comment on, regarding the
> Plasma Active App Store project. I know it may be a bit presumptuous,
> and perhaps intrusive, at this stage, but please bear with me.
>
> 1) I have tried to understand all the bits behind the App Store, and
> my realization from around two years experience in the mobile field
> was that this was one of the services for which we worked on the Open
> Collaboration Services Standard [1]. It was designed with this use
> case in mind, and is already used for very similar use cases, like the
> maemo download service, and recently the Apps4MeeGo community store
> (the term is misleading, it is not just about MeeGo).  You can find
> the relevant service(s) here:
> http://apps.formeego.org/ocs/providers.xml
>

> From what I have understood, and please do feel free to correct me,
> the server, developed by Aaron, established a "custom protocol" for
> communication between the server and client, based on json. I was
> wondering if any consideration was given to OCS for this ? I have not
> seen any discussions on the OCS mailing list about the drawbacks of
> OCS for this task, if any. Please do not take it offense; I am just
> curious, as one of the OCS contributors. I would personally be happy
> to improve the standard if it lacks somehow for the Plasma Active App
> Store purposes. We, as contributors, have already invested a decent
> amount of time to satisfy this use case, and I personally feel that my
> experience within this area has been wasted, since we were not even
> contacted . :/
>

I don't have a personal opinion of this, but I recalled that Aaron had
highlighted some reasons that this was done (not exactly OCS, but
oopendesktop.org), you can read about it here
http://aseigo.blogspot.in/2011/01/fire-up-synchrotron.html


>
> 2) My other (personal) opinion is about how the development has been
> happening. I may be wrong about this, but my impression from the
> sprint was that it happens behind the scenes. Is this for a business
> reason? It means that both the Open Governance and closed Business
> models are present. I am not saying this is wrong, just curious since
> I find the Plasma Active project promising in general. It would be
> much easier to provide feedback and suggestions and gain contributors
> in this early phase. I am just afraid that once it is out, it will be
> hard to change certain issues, and can slow down the process as a
> result of losing some potential participants.
>

> 3) It was nice to see a demo about the Ui draft from Marco during the
> sprint in Darmstadt, thanks again for that. I am looking forward to
> seeing the publisher client or website in the future!
>
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
>
> [1]
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services-draft
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Cheers,

-- 
Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com
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