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[Michael Vogt <mvo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

here is a brief summary from the software-center status call from
today plus some thoughts I had while writing the notes down.

== Software-center-agent ==

Michael Nelson provided the stub API for the software-center-agend and
it is working for me on his local machine. So we can now work against
the stub service (Michael Nelson also helped me a lot with the initial
setup). The real implementation for the s-c-agent is in progress, one
issue open is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/598464

The soyuz metadata upload is working, but not yet exactly
the way software-center needs it (a aggregation of the existing data
is still needed). 

== Billing ==

The generic billing system is making good progress and is on
schedule. The access to the billing system for purchase of software
will initially be limited to a (configurable) team so that we can
decide when to open it to the public (if we need to make a lot of
refunds that is going to be expensive for us).

== ISV ==

We also need to have something to sell once the system is ready, we
need to talk to ISV about this and make sure they have something
ready. We could also create something like a "donate and get desktop
backgrounds" package that we sell really cheap to test the system
against real-world users.

Cheers,
 Michael