Hi all! Kicking off this mailing list, I'd like to let everyone know what our current plan is to deliver the server-side piece of click packages. High-level, we're aiming to:
- Add a new form to the current MyApps web ui[1] with the most basic fields possible so people can start uploading click packages - Bring up a new service to provide downloads of these new packages (that will be stored in Swift, for the curious), and will not authenticate requests at all, so it will only provide free (gratis) apps - Bring up a new solr instance, that will be directly available to query from clients. It will contain only public data All of those while we prioritise having fake api's for the client team to be able to start work on the UI pieces now (led by Roberto Alsina). With those 3 pieces, we should have the absolute barebones version of the click packages appstore. The target date for this is "before July 23rd". Once we have this up and running, we will focus on authenticating downloads so we can allow commercial apps, and then polish until 14.04. Polish will mean a lot of things, improving some of the shortcuts we will take to get this up faster, adding new fields to better match business and legal requirements, be able to extract metadata from the package's manifest file, enforcing namespaces, doing some basic sanity checking of what's uploaded, etc. As for who to talk to about very specific technical details, these are the people who will actually be doing the work: - Ricardo Kirkner & Matias Bordese are tackling Software Center web/agent/server (with a little help from Jonas Drange) - James Tait is tackling on the search api (solr) - James Westby and Sidnei Da Silva are tackling the download/upload server (re-using U1's updown service) - Michael Nelson is juju-izing most of the services, as well as providing guidance in Software Center and solr work - Vincent Ladeuil is helping us from day 1 on getting our testing story in order Please let me know if you have any concerns about this plan, both in how it's being executed as well as target dates. [1] https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/ -- Martin -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
