Areas Of Focus

[Jono Bacon]

On 21 December 2011 01:57, Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> On 19.12.2011 19:53, Jono Bacon wrote:
>>  * Getting the apps reviewed - I have been talking with Daniel about
>> how he can support you all with a regular cadence for app reviews. We
>> had a similar challenge in the past with the sponsorship queue and
>> Daniel did a wonderful job getting that back in shape. I have asked
>> Daniel to work with you all to continue the implementation of a
>> piloting programme to help with this.
>
> I'm very glad a schedule of reviewers has been set up and once the queue
> is shorter, I'm sure this measure will help to keep it under control.
>
> Yesterday I took the time to give the items in the queue a quick review
> (now possible where bug 886366 is fixed) - the list of submissions is
> attached. A lot of them contain packaging of a kind and build - I hope
> that would put reviewers into a position where something can immediately
> done about the packages.

When you say these are packaged, do you mean the ARB packaged or it or
the submitter provided the package?

> Another category of submissions is ".deb packages". This is obviously
> not what we want, but I could imagine that a lot of submitters could be
> asked to provide the source packages.
>
> Some submissions contain binary bits, I put them at the bottom of the
> list. (I tried to sort the list from 'top' opportunities to submissions
> that likely require most work.)

Thanks for putting this list together, Daniel. I agree that if the ARB
can focus on reviewing the already packaged applications, this should
provide the most efficient use of the ARB's time and help us to get
some apps in the Ubuntu Software Center.

>>  * Getting apps packaged - I understand this is a core challenge for
>> us right now. I agree with the premise of opening the queue up so
>> other people can view it and package apps and submit them to the ARB,
>> and I also discussed with Daniel about coordinating some ARB packaging
>> days in the community. I have asked David to continue to ensure this
>> queue is public and serves this purpose.
>
> While many of the submissions will require a bit more work, it's only
> around a quarter that contain no packaging at all.

This is great to know. I presumed that more apps were bottlenecking on
the packaging. As such, it seems like the bottleneck is instead in the
review phase, which should be easier to unblock.

>>  * Metrics - I have always been a believer in if "you need to keep
>> score to do great work" so I have been asking David to work with ISD
>> to get some graphs that reflect the work of the ARB. I am confident
>> that this will help us to see progress and identify problematic spots.
>> This work should be completed before the holidays.
>
> I agree with the above. Nothing is more encouraging than seeing the
> number of items in the queue go down and accepted submissions going up.
> Over time this should also give us an idea if we need more people on the
> ARB or need to do a spring cleaning kind of initiative again.

Absolutely. Thanks for providing additional insight into this, Daniel.
I am excited about the better visibility we have to help the board be
successful.

Thanks,

   Jono

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