Re: Crome store access for unofficial releases

[Christian Grobmeier <gr...@gmail.com>]

Any updates on this?
Just curious :-)

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Ken Wallis <kw...@blackberry.com> wrote:
> We are working on it. ;)  Sorry for no response.
>
> Big thing is planning an update to remove our dependence on the Heroku instance.
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> Ken Wallis
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> ________________________________________
> From: Brent Lintner [brent.lintner@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:04 PM
> To: dev@ripple.incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Crome store access for unofficial releases
>
> Any updates on this from BlackBerry? (bump) :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Dan Silivestru
> <da...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> Agreed, it would be great if BB would donate the account to the ASF. I
>> think we can definitely work through all of the things you've mentioned
>> if/once that happens.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobmeier@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Dan Silivestru
>> > <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Hi Chris and Ken,
>> > >
>> > > We would like to request access to publish ripple to the Chrome Store
>> as
>> > an
>> > > unofficial channel for the work being done in Apache. I'm wondering if
>> > > BlackBerry would be willing to donate that account to Apache since it
>> is
>> > > actually branded as The Ripple Emulator and does not have any
>> BlackBerry
>> > > branding on it, nor does BlackBerry link to it from anywhere.
>> > >
>> > > I really do feel like this would be in the best interest of the
>> community
>> > > as well as the 75k users currently using the Chrome extension in the
>> > Google
>> > > Store. :-)
>> > >
>> > > Christian, is there a way for us to propose that this kind of a release
>> > > become official? Assuming BlackBerry will agree to donate the account?
>> > I'm
>> > > not sure if a chrome extension will be treated any differently then our
>> > NPM
>> > > package is.
>> >
>> > Assuming BB will donate it, the PMC can surely use it to publish
>> releases.
>> > But please note, the main official channel for our releases must be a
>> > source release
>> > on our own dist servers. There are a couple of requirements which we
>> > might need to match.
>> >
>> > While the PMC members all should have access to that channel, it is
>> > necessary to say
>> > that this is not the official distribution channel, but managed from
>> > PMC members. We need
>> > to make sure people know that there is one canonical source for Ripple.
>> >
>> > That said, the Chrome Store channel would need to be conform to
>> > trademarking requirements. This should be straightforward, when the
>> > channel is on hold of the PMC. It is not so easy when BlackBerry keeps
>> > it. To my knowledge the Ripple mark has been donated, and thus the use
>> > must be agreed with trademarks@apache.org. It is most likely that due
>> > to the similarity this will not be accepted.
>> >
>> > tldr: it would safe a lot of problems if BB would donate th chrome
>> > webstore channel to the ASF.
>> > In addition, the Apache Ripple PMC would need to find a way to
>> > securely share the password and to make sure, people understand there
>> > is an official canonical source for the releases and the Web store is
>> > an personal effort from the PMC.
>> >
>> > By the way, we make something similar in log4php land. We published
>> > log4php as so called composer package. This is going aside to our
>> > normal releases. Don't know if the publisher release is more popular
>> > than the download release, but i would not be surprised. From my
>> > experience is most enough to have up to date releases and say its
>> > maintained by the PMC to give a channel credibility, official or not.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Christian
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance,
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Dan Silivestru
>> > > +1 (519) 589-3624
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
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