My application is still Pending review

David Pitkin david.pitkin at canonical.com
Thu Nov 1 19:15:35 UTC 2012


Hi James,

Yes there is a difference, paid and non-open source we sometimes say
Commercial or MyApps applications are published by Canonical.

The ARB which is what you are looking at in this thread with the delays is
the Ubuntu Community review and publishing path for FOSS apps into
extras.ubuntu.com.

David


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:10 PM, James Gifford <james at jamesrgifford.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Alan Bell <alanbell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/11/12 19:01, James Gifford wrote:
>>
>>> No clue, but it is what it is. Ubuntu can't be competitive with anything
>>> greater than a 30 day delay between submission and publishing/rejection.
>>>
>>>  yeah, that isn't great, but most of these applications have comments on
>> and are awaiting the author's action (from my brief random sampling)
>
>
> If the author doesn't have an interest in developing anymore, than well,
> it should be removed - right now, it's clutter. And I don't think either of
> us is seeing the full picture, since the ones I took a peek at were all
> waiting on the reviewers.
>
>>
>>  But, I'm sure the folks at Canonical are well aware of that, and I hope
>>> that they can rectify it in a timely fashion. There are a lot of other
>>> folks who were part of the Ubuntu app showdown a few months back, and they
>>> haven't been published yet either.
>>>
>>>  this isn't the Canonical app submission thing for commercial
>> applications, this is the community staffed application review board - and
>> from this page it does look like they are struggling.
>
>
> Is there a difference? If so, what is the difference? I can't seem to find
> anything that mentions this difference, but then again, I'm not as in-touch
> with this part as I might be otherwise unfortunately. :(
>
> And then lastly, while I don't want to hijack this thread, if there is
> anything the larger community can do to help out, what is it?
>
> Thanks,
> James Gifford
>
>>
>>
> Alan.
>>
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