Require packages in PPA

[Stéphane Graber]

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On 01/10/2012 04:49 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 07:29 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> 
>> David Planella, Michael Vogt, Stéphane Graber and I had a
>> conversation earlier and discussed the idea of requiring PPA
>> uploads for free app submissions.
>> 
>> The idea was: that for a package submitter it would work like
>> this: they'd specify that it's a free app, then be presented with
>> a PPA picker (LP OpenID and some LP API magic should get it for
>> us) and a package picker afterwards. A simpler version would just
>> require them to paste the PPA URL.
>> 
>> This would make it a lot easier for the ARB, because we would
>> ensure that packages
>> 
>> - are in source package form - actually build - etc.
>> 
>> What do you think about the proposal?
> 
> It's a strong filter, which might make review easier, but will
> also certainly keep a lot of less experienced developers out. It
> seems a bit opposite the idea of "automated packaging" that we're
> working on at the same time.
> 
> And, I would really hate to kick out the current 45 apps in the
> queue saying "Sorry, we added a requirement that you have to use a
> PPA, so your submission is now invalid". :(
> 
> My preference would be to encourage the use of PPAs, but not make
> it a hard requirement. That way we can fast-track the ones who do
> use a PPA, but not completely block the ones who haven't figured
> out how yet. Maybe one of the first things we can do is help them
> figure out PPAs.

Right, what we discussed this morning (at least in my mind), was:
 - Improve the documentation on developer.ubuntu.com on how to create
a PPA and upload a package to it for the ARB process
 - Require a PPA for any new package
 - Still process the current queue and package when needed, just stop
doing it for the new ones
 - Once we have automated packaging, consider that as "having a PPA"

We basically want to ensure that we have the basic metadata and
something buildable when it hits the review queue.


>> A separate idea we kicked around was to massage the combined
>> knowledge of the ARB into a small tool which downloads the
>> package from the specified PPA and performs a number of tests on
>> them.
>> 
>> The script could be run by the package submitter, MyApps itself
>> and obviously ARB members as well. I attached a small and quick
>> proof of concept.
> 
> This is cool. :)
> 
> Allison
> 


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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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