On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:50:54 AM UTC-7, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Anant Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yesterday we had a discussion on IRC and concluded that it would be best > > to restrict the "description" field in the manifest to 250 characters (the > > current limit is 1024). The rationale is that we can then use the field to > > populate various tooltips on launch targets, fill the short description > > field on the marketplace, etc. > > > > A longer description of the app feels fairly store-specific and may > > include HTML, images, and so on; and thus it is best to omit such a field > > from the manifest. > > > > The repercussion of this change is that it breaks existing manifests, but > > luckily we only have around a hundred apps on the marketplace right now, of > > which only 8 exceed the 250 character limit. So, in this particular > > instance I think we can deal with the change fairly efficiently. > > > > It does bring up the larger question of how we will deal with changes that > > we may have to make in the future. I'd love to hear on thoughts on the > > matter! > > > > In this case, even if there were lots of apps, doing a kind of soft > verification would solve the problem: truncate existing records, reject > only new records, and I guess reject them only from the marketplace > (rejecting them at the time of installation would be a bad user experience, > especially when truncating is an acceptable fallback).
I agree on the truncation approach on a general scale. I don't think we should fail to install if someone violated the 250 character limit - the app could still be used even the description violation was made. Would there be any strong argument to not allow the installation all together? _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
