Ubuntu needs a new development model

[Ryan Oram]

It seems like a good site, but I ultimately feel it should be the
developer themselves who package the applications, as the developers
will have a much greater incentive to make working and tested packages
then the maintainers (no offense to the great work of the maintainers
of Ubuntu and Debian).

Ryan

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher
<danielhollocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,  have you thought about just working more closely with
> getdeb.net?  They are doing the same thing, except it isn't restricted
> to just multimedia packages.  Regardless, good luck.
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Ryan Oram <ryan at infinityos.net> wrote:
>> End users don't want to have to add PPAs or download .deb files off of websites.
>>
>> With infinityOS, users never have to leave their package management
>> system (or Software Center really) to get programs or update them to
>> the latest versions. This includes drivers. It works so well that I am
>> now suggesting that downloading packages from a third-party website is
>> a security hazard and that users should stick only to the packages
>> provided by default in the infinityOS and Ubuntu repos. This
>> completely eliminates the possiblity of spyware, as end-users would
>> only download packages that have been authenticated, peer-reviewed,
>> and tested.
>>
>> I would be more than happy to bring such functionality upstream to
>> Ubuntu. I want my ideas to be used by as many people as possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan Oram
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Hollocher
>> <danielhollocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that getdeb.net and the ppa's on launchpad satisfy
>>> most cravings for rolling releases.
>>>
>>
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