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Increasing our user base will increase our command developer base as well as our command subscriber base, and allow us to make more realistic explorations of the scaling effects that start to affect security and trust when the network grows past critical mass. For instance, I am not aware of anyone having yet attempted to write a malicious Ubiquity command. I'm sure this is mostly because the user base is too small to be worth targeting. As the user base grows, it becomes inevitable that someone will attempt to attack our users using a malicious command. Thus, growing the community is an opportunity to test out the web-of-trust security model. | Increasing our user base will increase our command developer base as well as our command subscriber base, and allow us to make more realistic explorations of the scaling effects that start to affect security and trust when the network grows past critical mass. For instance, I am not aware of anyone having yet attempted to write a malicious Ubiquity command. I'm sure this is mostly because the user base is too small to be worth targeting. As the user base grows, it becomes inevitable that someone will attempt to attack our users using a malicious command. Thus, growing the community is an opportunity to test out the web-of-trust security model. | ||
We should take a hint from the "Extend Firefox" contests and run a contest to write the best Ubiquity command -- the most useful, most innovative, and best implemented commands that conform to our human interface guidelines will be rewarded with publicity, | We should take a hint from the "Extend Firefox" contests and run a contest to write the best Ubiquity command -- the most useful, most innovative, and best implemented commands that conform to our security and human interface guidelines will be rewarded with publicity and swag. | ||
Separately from any contests, we should also have a spot on the Herd / command-search front page for "Featured Commands". This can be a short, rotating list of commands that we have reviewed for security and usability and found highly useful and worthy of recommendation. | |||
The Herd ought to offer a feature where users can give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to commands, and then view commands ranked by number of thumbs. | |||
Good, popular third-party commands can also be considered for inclusion into future versions of the standard feeds. (But inclusion in standard feeds will never be offered as a prize for any contest; that goes against Mozilla's policies.) | |||
== Ubiquity 0.6.1 == | == Ubiquity 0.6.1 == | ||