Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Scott Kitterman]

"Matthew Paul Thomas" <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:

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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.
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>> What happened with the idea of "trusted PPAs" which was discussed a
>> year ago?
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>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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Doing that would be extending the Ubuntu trust boundary to include not only the owners of the PPA, but whoever they decided to trust in the future. I like the current plan a lot better than that one.

Scott K