Dave Townsend wrote: > Yes that plan allows everyone to host, however we are forcing them down > a path they previously didn't want, i.e. hosting on AMO, or paying for > the privilege of writing extensions. > > Don't get me wrong, I would almost love it if this was the chosen route, > it's a piece of cake to implement. The question is do we want to make > the implementation easy for us at the expense of making things harder > than they need to be for the extensions community?
The question is: how much harder is "harder"? Anyone can write an extension and make it available for free to the world today, paying not a penny. OK, so the service isn't instantaneous, and they don't get great stats. But it's free! Let's also compare this with the digital signature solution proposed. That doesn't make things harder in terms of money - anyone can generate a key pair - but it does make things harder in terms of process complexity, and the need to guard your key. It also has the potential for a bad user experience if the addon author screws up the signing for their latest update. I'm really finding it hard to see the big win that all this effort produces... Of course, I'm not the one who gets to tell you what to work on :-) Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
