re-vision on the ARB (was: Resigning from the ARB)

[Jono Bacon]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Allison Randal <allison at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 04:00 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
>>
>> Despite the best efforts of the ARB, the gatekeeper approach is
>> definitely not working. With this in mind I have been working with
>> some folks to propose a new process for app devs. I will post about it
>> next week when some of the thinking is jotted down.
>
> I've been pondering what my ideal ARB process might look like, and it
> seems to be completely upside down of what we have now. Instead of
> manually verifying that each app meets the policy, we automatically
> verify what we can (which could include /opt path checks and apparmor
> profile checks), and have the system just publish if it passes those
> checks. Make sure we have an easy way for users to report any violations
> or bad effects, and be very responsive to remove offending packages.
>
> That could break us free of the gatekeeper trap, and give us time to
> work on better automated checks and better automated packaging.

Agreed: this is basically the direction that we are working in. We are
wrapping up a first cut of the spec (I thought it would be easier to
put together a spec that we can all use as a foundation for
discussion) and then we can have a community discussion about the
details.

   Jono

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