Require packages in PPA

[Allison Randal]

On 01/10/2012 07:53 AM, Stéphane Graber 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.

I'm comfortable with this, with one modification. At the point in the
docs where we tell them to upload to a PPA (and at all relevant points
before that) we also say "if you have any questions while doing this,
ask on the mailing list or IRC". Right now we're getting a lot of
submissions to MyApps with notes like "Not sure if I'm doing this right,
I'll try it." This change means we're still available to help the
newbies, but flips it around so submitting to MyApps is the *last* stage
of the process, instead of the first stage.

Allison