Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Scott Kitterman]

Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>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)

Why invest any time at all?

Scott K