1004611 - [tracking] BetaChannel aka d2g (distribute to gecko)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Project Review, task)

Description

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Initial Questions:

Project/Feature Name: d2g (distribute to gecko)
Tracking  ID:1004604
Description:
The goal is an easy to use website for letting developers who are writing certified apps, an easily way to get beta testers access.

Currently certified apps must be baked into FxOS and are very hard to distribute outside of the main source tree.

The developer would upload their certified app.

The website would sign the app with it's beta tester certificate.

The website distributes these signed, certified apps to beta users.

Users are authenticate with Persona or other.

ACL is email address based.

The website hosts testing certificates and instructions on how to convert a FxOS devices into a beta testing device.

The website manages the workflow for developers and testers.

These certified apps are not meant for production usage, nor wide distribution.
Additional Information:

Key Initiative: Firefox OS
Release Date: 2014-08-01
Project Status: development
Mozilla Data: No
Mozilla Related: FirefoxOS
Separate Party: No

Comment 1

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

this didn't spawn any of the usual bugs for the teams to work on only the meta bug I'm assuming we need all the usual reviews? You may want to kick this bug off again and answer some of the questions differently or you can manually spawn the bugs yourself.

Comment 2

[Liz Compton [:liz]]

Austin - If you're looking for guidance from legal, privacy, or security, I'd be happy to walk you through how to answer the questions to generate the right bugs. Need info flag me if you'd like my help.

Mika - I thought you'd be interested in this project.

Comment 3

[Austin King [:ozten]]

> I'm assuming we need all the usual reviews?

Yes, I'll look for the various product/components and file. Thanks!

> If you're looking for guidance from legal, privacy, or security, I'd be happy to walk you through

Thanks! I'll ping you when I'm ready for help.

Comment 4

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Attachment: wireframes.png

Wireframes for main screens.

Comment 5

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Created Project page which links to spec and wireframes.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/d2g

Comment 6

[Paul Theriault [:pauljt] (no longer reading bugmail)]

To be clear - you are talking abuot "privileged" apps here, right? Not certified? Privielged are signed 3rd party apps that can be installed from the trusted marketplace only (ie our marketplace at the moment). Certified apps are _not_ signed but also can not be installed, other than with the app manager. Certified apps are intended to be shipped with the device.

Comment 7

[Austin King [:ozten]]

yes, the spec is up to date, the comment #0 had a typo. This targets privileged apps and not certified apps.

Comment 9

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Project Wiki page was moved to
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/BetaFox

Comment 10

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Renaming project from BetaFox to BetaChannel.

Comment 11

[BMO Automation]

This bug is no longer being worked on so it is being closed WONTFIX.