Require packages in PPA

Jono Bacon jono at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 10 15:57:53 UTC 2012


On 10 January 2012 07:53, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly - this would be a requirement for *new* packages and the
existing items  in the queue would be reviewed as an exception due to
their history before the PPA requirement. The goal would be to
preferably get the current queue items reviewed this week.

   Jono

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