My application is still Pending review

[Allison Randal]

Yes, anyone can join the ARB contributors team and help out.

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-app-review-contributors

Hop onto the mailing list (app-review-board at lists.ubuntu.com) or IRC
channel (#ubuntu-arb) and people will be happy to help you get started.

Most packages need a bit of cleanup before they're publishable, I found
it to be about 4 hours per package. So, you can see that with 3 people
on the ARB and over 200 packages in the queue (representing ~800 hours
of work), and more submissions coming in daily, they could really use
some help.

We've had a number of conversations at the Ubuntu Developer Summit this
week on improvements to the process. From the beginning, the plan was to
automate the process so apps could be published without manual review,
as long as they passed certain checks. But, the tools to do the
automated checking don't exist yet. There will be a lot of work going
into those tools in the coming months.

But, while the tools are being developed, at the moment it's still an
entirely manual process and desperately needs more humans involved.

Allison

On 11/01/2012 08:27 PM, James Gifford wrote:
> Interesting. 
> 
> Ok, so suppose a community member wanted to help out - the set of
> instructions here[1] are what we should use, right?
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review
> 
> --
> James Gifford
> cell: 2162238574
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Alan Bell <alanbell at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:alanbell at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 01/11/12 19:10, James Gifford wrote:
> 
> 
>         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. :(
> 
>     yes, commercial applications get packaged by the Canonical service,
>     open source stuff goes through the ARB. Things can still go into
>     Debian and arrive in Ubuntu the long way round in the next release,
>     the ARB route means that developers can target the current stable
>     release of Ubuntu and release stuff post-release of the base system.
> 
>     Alan
> 
> 
>     -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk
> 
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