Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le 05/09/2012 05:39, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
> No really, since I think that most of the packages that have been aimed at the
> ARB are not "this month's beer festival" apps.  They are things that could
> have been packaged normally just fine.
Well, at the end of the day there is also the issue that we expect high 
quality for things that go in the archive and it means it takes time and 
efforts to get something in (some of the stuff uploaded before ff still 
didn't get reviewed in NEW btw).

I'm sure you will find that on the 130 apps from the app contest lot will be

- not up to Debian,Ubuntu archive standards

- having a developper who doesn't care much about Ubuntu itself, and our 
distribution rules, cycle, freezes, etc ... app writer just want users 
to be able to get their software

- not maintained over time

Why invest so much time and efforts to grow the number of things that 
will then stay buggy and unmaintained in universe and makes our work 
even harder (look at how many days we spend fixing years
old unmaintained and unused stuff when e.g GTK starts deprecating 
functions or when doing lib transitions)

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher