RFC: Requirements for promoting a package into main

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:34:07PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> As discussed in yesterday's TB meeting, I created some guidelines
> which steps need to be taken before a package is included into main:
> 
>   https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements
> 
> This documents the existing practice I followed for
> accepting/rejecting packages in the past; however, so far I did not
> always document the result of my reviews; for the sake of peer review
> and documentation, we should probably make this a requirement now.
> 
> I appreciate any comments, suggestions, corrections of bad English.

This is an excellent draft; thanks for putting it together.  I think that it
covers the basics well, and that we can refine it as we go along.  This work
provides a basis for distributing the workload of reviewing packages over
more people, which should help to speed the process greatly.

One thing which could be helpful to add would be a recommendation to contact
the appropriate team for assistance with the review.  For example, our
resident Java experts can better evaluate whether a package follows our Java
guidelines.

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 - mdz