xdg-app for MOSS

[Pranav Kant]

Yeah, he is looking into it. I was just assigned to gather information
about it. So, I thought I should drop an email here. :)
On 28-Oct-2015 2:48 pm, "Alexander Larsson" <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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