Controlling 3rd-party content in Mallard

[Phil Bull <philbull gmail com>]

Hi guys,

We've been discussing Mallard quite heavily on the Ubuntu Docs list over
the past week. One issue that came up (via Kyle Nitzsche, see his
original message here [1]) is that people could install their own pages
in the same directory as the official Ubuntu documentation.

In some situations this would be useful, for example when a different
default browser is chosen. The potential for misuse is massive, though;
third-party developers could pretty much take over the official docs if
they wanted to, putting links to their content in irrelevant places.
This would be a nightmare for users.

Is there any way of restricting what can link in to certain documents?
One thought I had was that restrictions could optionally be made by
publisher, and each publisher could digitally-sign their documents. This
seems a bit complicated, though.

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2010-January/014292.html

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