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 <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Dan Silivestru > <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. 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 > > > > -- > http://www.grobmeier.de > https://www.timeandbill.de > -- Dan Silivestru +1 (519) 589-3624
