App Review Board Queue Report (and some questions)

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Carter <jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks a lot for aggregating the stats Jonathan.

> 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).
>

Agreed. I too will have a look over the queue over the weekend. (I'm a
bit busy now due to my masters exams)

> 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.
>

The policy for non free apps remains the same being passing it on to
the myapps team for looking into it or if it violates the extras
policy somewhere, it can be rejected IMHO.

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

+1

> 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?
>

Unfortunately, I didnt see any bulk rejection options in the portal
and will raise a bug for the same.

> 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.
>

Allison came up with a similar idea and I have a draft template here
for the same:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2013-January/002870.html

Let me know your thoughts on the same.


Regards,

-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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