New Process Review: Post App Release Process

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
>  * I don't quite understand the purpose of the "The process only
>    applies to a specific version of an application" limitation. Does
>    that mean that the process has to be re-done for each version bump?
>    If software-center merely gets a link to the PPA, or a package name
>    in a PPA, then the developer can just upload newer versions?

I think this means that it can be used to add a new application, but not
update an existing one.

>  * The package review is a lot like reviews on REVU or the NEW queue
>    for archive admins, just with some more relaxed checks. However,
>    should we do a rigorous copyright/license evaluation that we do for
>    the NEW queue? I. e. ascertain that all files in the package have
>    a unique copyright and license assigned, and that there are no
>    files that violate the license? A common example for the latter is
>    a PDF file without the OO.o/LaTeX/etc. source in a GPL package. We
>    can probably allow some leeway here, since we do not ship those
>    packages in Ubuntu, but at least some cursory checks might be
>    adequate.

I suggested to Jono that we just refer to an existing document used for
package reviews.  If there isn't one, we should probably create one at this
point rather than duplicating this policy.

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 - mdz