xdg-app for MOSS

[Alexander Larsson]

On tis, 2015-10-27 at 22:28 +0530, Pranav Kant wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So, as Mozilla is starting with a program called MOSS[1] very soon
> with an initial allocation of $1 million. There are two categories
> for which it would be accepting projects. First one would be for
> projects that Mozilla relies on, and the second one is on
> projects/technologies that Mozilla can use in future with particular
> focus on providing security[2].
> 
> xdg-app seems to be a very good fit in the second category, and we
> can make Mozilla fund xdg-app with strong arguments showing how
> important xdg-app could be to Mozilla. There are many problems that
> Mozilla users face currently that could be solved with sandboxing.
> For example, firefox extensions, that could do anything what firefox
> could do. No user would like that. A sandboxed firefox is what anyone
> with a bit of security concerns would prefer.
> 
> There are, indeed, many other arguments we can make for xdg-app, as
> one of the potential project in MOSS. Feel free to use this thread to
> brainstorm how xdg-app could help Mozilla, and we could be one of the
> projects, probably most important, in [2].
> 
> [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-so
> urce-support-program/
> [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS#Other_Tracks
> 

I believe sri was looking into this. Right sri?

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