Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, October 10, 2011 12:03:44 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mardi 20 septembre 2011 à 16:10 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit :
> > not sure I do understand you. What reason did they give to have it in
> > the
> > distribution in the first place?
> 
> Upstream don't care much about "being in the distribution" I think, what
> they care about is to reach users and have their code easy to install.
> 
> It's maybe time that we start pushing upstream to get their softwares in
> extras.ubuntu.com and not in the distribution? The processes we use make
> sense for the system components, not so much for random applications,
> it's neither good for upstreams (too hard to get things in the archive
> because we have higher quality standards that they might have), nor for
> us (we often get to maintain things that are left unmaintained there).
> What happens messaging that the archive is for the system components and
> that third party applications should not aim to get there?

I think that would be a remarkable change in what we think a distribution is.  
Not a good one either I don't think.

If we try to reduce the work to the available developers by reducing the scope 
of the archive, then we are also reducing the pool of potentially interested 
developers as well.  I'd rather grow into solving the problem than try to cut 
our way out of it.

Scott K