XO activity bundle .info format

[pgf at laptop.org]

bobby wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
 > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
 > >> Undoubtedly people who are dbus developers understand the proper use
 > >> of the "organization_namespace".  But suppose someone in a far
 > >> corner of the world wishes to contribute.  All he knows is that a
 > >> three-part name-string gets applied to his Activity's interaction
 > >> with the rest of the system.  Since *he* never tests that name, he
 > >> may feel free to put anything at all into that name-string.
 > >>
 > >> I believe that life ought to be made as easy as possible for people
 > >> who want to enhance their Sugar systems.  Requiring "correctness" in
 > >> all parts of name-strings, when to non-insiders those name-strings
 > >> might seem meaningless, does not make their participation easier.
 > >
 > > Some time ago I tried to better document the expectations for
 > > bundle_id at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#.info_File_Format.
 > 
 > I found this page very helpful and clear when I was first bundling my
 > activity back in May, thanks Scott.  I think that requiring
 > correctness is actually helpful in the long term, if anything we
 > should try to make the documentation more accessible.

it's helpful, but could be better.  how should i, an individual
contributor with no particular "domain" that i own or belong to,
construct a name?  the given example of "com.redhat.Sugar.BrowserActivity"
isn't much of a guideline in that case.  should i just make one
up?  (and, in the case of my one and only activity, there was no
python involved, so the entire second half of the paragraph was
inapplicable.)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org