Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, October 10, 2011 06:08:16 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 16:41 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit :
> > It's pretty much how I got involved in Debian, way back when.
> 
> Great, it's also how I started in Debian back then ;-)
> 
> Debian and Ubuntu are great communities and will keep attracting people
> who have interest in doing that sort of work but...
> 
> - there are lot of people out there who writer softwares and have no
> interest to learn enough about Ubuntu to become a MOTU, they just want
> to reach users, they should be welcome to join as well and in a way
> which is not to difficult for them
> - you were recently complaining as well about the number of packages
> that see one upload and stop being maintained that we have to fix then,
> do we want those in the main archive because they attract people or
> would they be better suited in extras?
> - locking upstream softwares to our release cycle just don't fit, it's a
> best un-natural and create extra work, it often means that users get
> outdated softwares or versions that upstreams want to replace
> 
> One other way would be perhaps to stop freezing universe at release and
> to let softwares elvolve in a least strict way...

What rationale would there be for doing that for just Universe?  There are 
lots of leaf applications in Main and lots of libraries in Universe.

Scott K