Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Matthew,


On Monday, August 16, 2010 04:17:18 pm Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> The problem with a PPA, besides the difficulty of adding it in the first
> place, is that it can hose your system (which is what makes it possible
> for the Ubuntu Kernel Team to have a PPA, for example). The Application
> Review Board will protect against things like that.

So, we are pushing those "non-permanent" applications to ubuntu and we (as in 
ubuntu) take care, that this doesn't destroy our distro?
Therefore we take over responsibility for the applications, and not the org 
which wants to have this app inside ubuntu.

Taking your example: 

>Imagine, for a moment, that you're a programmer considering a four-week
>contract from Warner Brothers in May 2011 to create the Ubuntu version
>of a screensaver for their latest movie. You're more of a Debian person
>yourself, and your employers have no problem with the screensaver
>working on other OSes too. They don't even mind if it's open-source.
>Their sole concern is getting the screensaver into Ubuntu Software
>Center, for Ubuntu 10.10 LTS and 11.04, before the movie's release in July.


Well, this sounds like a good deal for Canonical and the partner repository, 
or better a special canonical supported archive != partner, which is more for 
commercial apps.

If this process is only meant for non-commercial apps, but delivered by 
commercial companies, I would consider this as a no go for the whole ubuntu 
developer community distro. This should be done on Canonicals side, as a 
business requirement (which I can understand very well).

But FLOSS apps which are created by the community, they should go the normal 
way.

Regards,

\sh
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