NEW Packages process

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 13:17, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> Daniel Holbach wrote:
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> > Hello everybody,
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> > after a recent discussion about a perceived disconnect between "main
> > processes" and "universe processes", I thought a bit about the process
> > for NEW Packages.
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> Well, just to be clear, there is no disconnect between Main and Universe
> when it comes to NEW packages because there is only one "policy".
> Packages go through Universe to get to Main. There is no Main NEW
> processes (unless you count MIR but I don't think we want to go there).
>
> > Historically it was introduced to make sure that new packages are of
> > tip-top quality when they enter the archive. We started with 3 necessary
> > ACKs and changed it to 2 ACKs for non-MOTUs and encouraged MOTUs to get
> > an ACK from other MOTUs. I feel we've been very successful with the work
> > we've put into Universe and the quality of new packages.
>
> Entirely too successful, IMO. Around 1/3 of all Universe Ubuntu packages
> (ubuntu versioned) are not in Debian which means MOTU is the sole
> maintainer. Even if we say 10% are Ubuntu-specific that leaves something
> around 700 packages we have to maintain by ourselves or probably at
> least 10 packages/MOTU. This is pretty much nuts if you ask me. But
> that's another discussion so I won't go any further with that.

I think it's entirely on point.  I don't think easier to get new packages into 
Ubuntu is a problem that really needs solving.

Scott K