App Review Board Queue Report (and some questions)

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi

I'm checking this for myself but thought that I might as well fire off 
the report to the list too just in case someone else finds it useful.

Apps currently in queue:

* 10 new apps have been submitted in the last week
* A further 41 apps have been submitted in the last month
* A further 66 apps have been submitted that are up to 6 months old
* A further 132 apps are up to a year old
* A further 1 app is in the queue fore just more than a year (happy 
birthday)

That's a total of 240 packages in need of review, guidance, etc.

looking at the list, it seems that there are quite a few of them that 
need to be rejected (tweak tools that requires root in some cases, nfs 
mounting tools, etc).

What's the policy for things that require non-free software to work? 
There's a Skype langpack that contain binary-only translation files that 
have to install under /usr in order to work. I think it should probably 
be rejected.

Am I right that command-line-only tools should be rejected? Persy seems 
like one of those.

Is there a way to communicate with all these app submitters? Could we 
give them a status update of some kind to let them know that we'll be 
getting back to them or do we need to update every request individually?

Did we finally start dropping apps which had requests that were not 
tended to for longer than 2 weeks? (or whatever the period was). I saw a 
few apps which had requests pending but wasn't addressed.

Anyway, I'm off to bed now, will check some more over the weekend.

-Jonathan