Any updates on this from BlackBerry? (bump) :-) Thanks!
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Dan Silivestru <[email protected]>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 <[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 > -- Brent Lintner
