Getting rid of terminology
John Lenton
john.lenton at canonical.com
Fri Mar 11 14:27:41 UTC 2016
So are there cases where we want to show the developer if it isn't the
publisher, but not show it otherwise?
On 11 March 2016 at 14:25, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
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> The publisher is the developer that owns and controls the snap name. The
> developer is the author of a particular snap revision.
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> So the publisher is necessarily a developer, but the developer is not
> necessarily a publisher. For that reason inside snappy we'll often care more
> about the developer than the publisher.
>
> An exception to that is assertions.. at some point we'll need to validate
> that the publisher authorized the developer to use the given snap name.
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> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:17 AM, John Lenton <john.lenton at canonical.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 10 March 2016 at 14:33, Gustavo Niemeyer
>> <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > - Origin
>> >
>> > Per the new terminology, that's the snap developer
>>
>> I think it's the publisher?
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> gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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