Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Rick Spencer]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 18:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:59:59 pm Allison Randal wrote:
> > On 08/18/2010 02:40 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > Quickly, when it was developed was described as being aimed at the
> > > opportunistic developer who needed something relatively simple to solve a
> > > local need.  The distribute side of the equation for these kinds of
> > > developers is a local problem and not one for Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Yep, the team who started Quickly focused on simple, local apps, and it
> > was the right place to start. But, the sharing component was embedded in
> > the idea from the beginning. Scratch wouldn't be a success without both
> > pillars: easy to create, easy to share. To really do that well, creation
> > and sharing need to be tightly integrated. In Scratch, there's a "Share"
> > button right in the IDE. Click the button, enter a title and
> > description, and hey-presto your app is distributed. We're a long way
> > off from that, but it's an inspiration for future potential.
> > 
> > It could be anyone's problem, but the Ubuntu project is in a unique
> > position to make it happen, and one of the core principles at the heart
> > of Ubuntu is taking disruptive, visionary, game-changing steps that pave
> > the way to the future.
> 
> Certainly sharing is important for the opportunistic programmer use case, just 
> not public sharing to all users of Ubuntu.  I'm fine with being disruptive and 
> visionary, let's just not pretend we knew all along this is what we were 
> doing.  It's great to expand the vision as it matures, but we don't need 
> revisionist history to feel OK with it.

I'm not sure discussing the past like this is too terribly productive,
but I guess, well, I feel that I should point out that making it easy to
get your apps to users was part of the vision from the very beginning.
You may recall the "application layer cake" model that we started this
all off with? "Packaging and Distribution" was the second layer, and
"Discovery and Installation" was the third and top layer. If any one is
interested, I can post those slides somewhere.

So from the beginning, Quickly was designed to make apps that would go
from creation to users installing them. We made some modest progress on
"Discovery and Installation" in Lucid within Ubuntu, which was that you
could graphically install from PPAs in software center, after the PPA
was added in software-sources, of course.

Cheers, Rick