Temporary REVU package storage

[Neil Wilson]

Sorry Scott, but we're going to have to disagree on that point.

Fundamentally ubuntu development is based around launchpad, and you
have to get involved in that if you want to deal with bugs, upgrades
and the like.

To then require people to learn an entirely different system for new
packages is frankly a waste of community effort. With REVU out of
action, this is the time to seize the moment and merge the new package
system with the sync and update regimes already in place

If the MOTU community is genuinely interested in encouraging new
software into the universe (and from my own experience it doesn't feel
like that at all), then you need to reduce the learning curve and
harmonise the processes. Not increase it on ideological grounds.

Now I'm sure that MOTUs don't believe that they are alienating
developers. But your current processes will leave people with that
feeling. What you have to remember is that developers are busy people
too. I certainly don't have time to sit on IRC shouting forlornly into
the ether until somebody deems it appropriate to answer just to get a
package reviewed. Much more sensible that I subscribe the
'motu-reviewers' group to a [needs packaging] bug and come back later
once I get an email telling me that something has happened. That way I
can get something else done in the mean time.

I would ask that you all consider the load that you place upon people
want to contribute to Ubuntu. QA is a good thing, but when it becomes
alienating then it is failing its purpose.

NeilW