Help with packaging 3 featured open source apps for January

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:34 PM, David Planella
<david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi App Review Board,

Hi David,

>
> Every month the Consumer Apps team discusses the applications we want to
> highlight in the Software Centre and thus which banners will be shown
> whenever a user opens it.
>
> For January we'd like to have a solid list of Free Software apps to
> highlight, and rather than choosing apps from the archive as we've been
> doing until now, we've thought that it would be nice to have some
> ARB-submitted apps in there to bring some freshness. This would give
> users some new applications to discover and we would be supporting Free
> Software app authors by promoting their work.
>

Thanks for the heads up and the idea!

> We've come up with this list:
>
> * MyUnity
> * RStudio
> * Ubuntu Tweak
>
> What I'd like to ask you is if you could help us with packaging these
> apps for Oneiric by January, which is when the new banners will be
> published.
>
> Some details:
>
> - MyUnity: already on the queue, has a PPA, has entered the archive for
> Precise (https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/437/)
>
Will get in touch with Andrea for more on MyUnity.

> - Ubuntu Tweak: already on the queue, has a PPA
> (https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/462/)
>

Since its already there in PPA, review and repackaging if required,
would suffice I guess

> - RStudio: already on the queue, needs packaging
> (https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/251/)
>

Looking around the web I think the Rstudio guys have prebuilt deb
files for installation

http://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.94.110-i386.deb

http://rstudio.org/download/server

Need to dig on the details more for packaging.

> I think all of them except from RStudio are low hanging fruit items in
> the queue, as they're all packaged already, and I think they also bring
> a good opportunity to start seeing the first Free Software apps released
> in extras.ubuntu.com for Oneiric.
>
> Do you think you could give us a hand?
>

Sure!


> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> David.


Regards,

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Bhavani Shankar
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