Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Siegfried Gevatter wrote on 16/08/10 15:34:
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> 2010/8/16 Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>:
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>> 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.
> 
> What happened with the idea of "trusted PPAs" which was discussed a
> year ago?

That's one possible future extension to the Maverick scheme. The Review
Board could approve a PPA, instead of approving just a piece of software
inside that PPA.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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