Closing out this loop: Talking with Wil Clouser, the Marketplace team has a full plate working on other 2.5 features at the moment. Unless we have priority reasons for bumping it up, support for apps with this permission in the Marketplace will likely be slotted for a mid to late November sprint.
If you think you might need support for this sooner, please comment in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208633 For this email app experiment, we can just ask people to download a zip and use the WebIDE to load it for now. James On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM, James Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > We would like to host a branch of the Gaia email app as a privileged > app in the Marketplace. We think we might be able to do it now that > the moz-extremely-unstable-and-will-change-webcomponents permission > exists. > > What is the process for getting a privileged app that uses this new > permission into the Marketplace? > > I tried just uploading to the Marketplace using my Firefox account > tied to my Mozilla email address, but that did not work, as I would > expect. There likely needs to be some other special handling for apps > that use that permission. > > Some other notes: > > 1) This app would be unlisted and short-lived, on the order of a > couple months. We only want to use it to get some early testing and > feedback and eventually remove it from the Marketplace once we land > the changes in gaia master. > > 2) Ideally we could just target devices that are running latest master > or B2G 2.5 code, as the email code assumes related Gecko/JS engine > support that corresponds to master/2.5. > > James _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
