Request For Candidates: Application Review Board
Michael Bienia
michael at bienia.de
Mon Aug 16 20:27:53 BST 2010
On 2010-08-16 15:17:18 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> 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.
>
> You start researching what it would take to get Ubuntu per-package
> upload permission for the screensaver package. You discover that, among
> other things, you'd need to create an Ubuntu wiki page containing such
> fun stuff as "Things I could do better" and "What I like least in
> Ubuntu", get three to five "endorsements" for your application,
> subscribe to a mailing list where you'd have to announce your
> application and answer questions about it, wait between one and two
> weeks for a Developer Membership Board meeting, work out how to use this
> "IRC" thing to attend the meeting (1500 UTC, sucks to be you if you're
> in Sydney), "show advocation and support of existing developers
> indicating that previous work on the package demonstrated that
> unsupervised upload is warranted", "have documented previous concern for
> the packages in question in Ubuntu, including previous uploads,
> effective bug management, and similar previous work", and "show a
> history of effective collaboration with other developers in Ubuntu".
Why should that developer follow that process for one application he's
developing? Or would he apply for DD to get his application into Debian
too?
Michael
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