Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:04:53PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >App developers don't want to be distro maintainers.  That's why so many
> >never attempt to get their apps into Universe or Debian.

> >Right now PPAs are the easiest way for app developers to deliver their
> >apps, so that's what they're using.  It makes things worse (and less
> >safe) for users, but when they are faced with the choice between
> >installing yet another PPA from someone they don't know, or not getting
> >the app they want, they have been installing the PPA.

> Certainly, but the current ARB level of effort could have gotten packages
> into the distro via backports with almost certainly less effort on the
> part of ARB members and no more on the part of app developers.  Absent a
> highly automated system, the technical rationale for extras is very weak.

Not sure if something was lost in translation here, but the new proposal is
precisely about implementing that highly automated system.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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