re-vision on the ARB

Michael Hall mhall119 at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 20 14:22:54 UTC 2012


> I also think it might be a good idea to have a quarantine (like
> -proposed) first, so perhaps an app could go into some staging-like
> repository first and if early adopters havnen't found a major problem or
> violation with it within a certain short period of time (could be as
> short as a day or two) then it could be moved over to the main
> repository. I just think it's important to be weary of kids who are
> going to upload things that are going to remove all your documents or
> something silly like that as a prank.
>

Ideally we will have sandboxing that will prevent "kids" from doing this 
all together.  Unless an app has a valid reason for being able to write 
to your ~/Documents/ directory, it shouldn't be allowed to do so.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com



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