<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Ryan Oram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryanoram@trentu.ca">ryanoram@trentu.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:45 -0400 BST, Joao Pinto<br>
<<a href="mailto:joao.pinto@getdeb.net">joao.pinto@getdeb.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Why set up another project instead of participating in GetDeb ?<br>
> What do you expect to achieve with "Ubuntu AppUpdate" that you can't with<br>
> GetDeb ?<br>
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</div>I believe I sent you an e-mail asking if your team wanted to<br>
collaborate. (I sent one to the author of Ubuntu Tweak as well)<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I am sorry didn't noticed your mail prior to this one, anyway my questions remain.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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My main concern with GetDeb is that uploading packages to your service<br>
doesn't seem to be a concrete or transparent process. I also would<br></blockquote><div>Did you read <a href="http://wiki.getdeb.net/AutomatedBuildSystem">http://wiki.getdeb.net/AutomatedBuildSystem</a> ?<br>We have experienced some hosting problems on the last couple of months which had a major impact on our availability, we expect to recover full operationally soon.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
like to encourage developers to make their packages using<br>
Launchpad/PPAs as Launchpad requires all packages to be built using<br>
pbuilder and has a number of safety checks in place.<br></blockquote><div><br>Our packages use sbuild (I believe the official archive also uses it), I am not aware of safety checks applied at PPAs, can you ellaborate ?<br>
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I feel that an official and documented process for package creation,<br>
testing and distribution is crucial. As such I have based the Ubuntu<br>
AppUpdate process on Debian's process of pushing packages from<br>
Unstable to Testing, while using Launchpad to make the documentation<br>
readily available to users.<br></blockquote><div><br>You may have a documented process as we do for quite some time but I find it very unlikely that it will ever be "Official" as that requires Canonical/Ubuntu community approval and I really don't see your project aligned with the current official plans/projects like the software center opportunistic applications, daily builds etc.<br>
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I would be more than happy to collaborate with your team, if you guys<br>
are willing.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Feel free to join our team :)<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Ryan<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>GetDeb has some objectives common to what you are proposing, it has been successful in many aspects, failed in some others, the current team is very small but with a long experience. I think it would be more beneficial for the community to join instead of divide.<br>
<br>Thanks<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>João Luís Marques Pinto<br>GetDeb Team Leader<br><a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a><br><a href="http://blog.getdeb.net">http://blog.getdeb.net</a><br>