Future of MOTU

[Scott Kitterman]

"Brian J Mingus" <Brian.Mingus at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:02 AM, jdetaeye <jdetaeye at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
>
>> >>With REVU, there is a problem if it takes to long to get a package
>> reviewed.
>>
>> It takes too long, no "if" statement required.
>> A quick look at the current list of review backlog is devastating:
>> http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/.
>> People wait for more than a year to get their contribution reviewed.
>>
>> The tools and the intention of the REVU process are right. But if
>> there aren't any reviewers working on the list, the process will
>> remain broken.
>>
>> >>The uploaders become unmotivated and disappear. The package is left in
>> the
>> >>"needs work" state, and that list is even longer than the "needs review"
>> list.
>>
>> Add me in this category: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/frepple
>>
>> Johan
>>
>>
>Yeah I'm on that list. I asked on REVU, in IRC, on this list and on
>Launchpad and I couldn't any MOTU to care one iota about my package. If
>there was even anyone in the process who cared they would have at least
>replied.
>
We get far more package submissions than we can review every cycle. I generally recommend getting your package into Debian and then it will be sync'ed into Ubuntu. There are a lot more developers in Debian. 

Scott K