Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, August 20, 2010 06:52:36 pm Rick Spencer wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough.  It's your baby so I'm sure you know the history better than I 
do.  In any case it's pretty well orthogonal to where we go from here on post-
release-apps.  Thanks for the correction.

Scott K