Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 07:08:56 am Martin Pitt wrote:
> Andrew SB [2010-08-13 15:23 -0400]:
> > Who is responsible for pushing these new apps to the development
> > release?
> 
> The author/packager of the software. AFAICS the main point of this
> process was to avoid having to push a lot of "fire'n'forget" apps into
> universe.
> 
> > As Scott said, "Once the next release hits they won't be in
> > the current release anymore because we skipped the part where we get
> > the packages into the development release." Are we creating a
> > permanent split in the archive with two completely different
> > processes?
> 
> Those new packages should not be considered being part of Ubuntu, the
> new process should just provide a standard way of making third-party
> apps more easy to discover. But the responsibility for those should
> still by and large remain at the third party's side. Of course by
> showing them in software-center we gain a bit of responsibility, which
> is why we need to introduce a review step here.
> 
> Not sure how you think about this, but I think from a number of
> maintainers/MOTUs POV just about the last thing universe needs is even
> more undermaintained packages?

I agree it's just about the last thing.  I think the last thing that Universe 
needs is developers being pullled away from MOTU work to work on some other 
process so while I agree with you about the concern, my fear is that the cure 
will make the patient sicker, not better.

Scott K