<div dir="ltr">Dear Sirs, I hope you are doing fine in the new year. I would like to share my concerns about the documentation material available for packaging software for ubuntu. I am an ubuntu user since June, 2007. As I am as computer engineering student, I deal with packages of programming languages libraries frequently. Unfortunately, most of the packages available in ubuntu repositories are outdated. I know that I am using unpopular libraries and projects, and the repositories contains most of the time stable releases. I am not blaming MOTU, as this is not the place as I can file bugs against the packages I want to be updated in launchpad. As I am obessesed with ubuntu and its community efforts, I would like to participate in. I remember that there is no 3 months go without trying to package some software and add it to my personal PPA. Every time I try to do so, I face a problem reading long detailed documents and it is always failing when it comes to signing the packages. Even with the support available in the MOTU IRC channel I could not manage it correctly for once !. My problem that the documentation available for the packaging procedure is long and detailed and it is more like guideleines and policies to do MOTU standard packaging. Even with the help of the videos, there are still a lot of details addressing licensing and manauals and packaging quality topics. As a beginner, I am more concerned with doing packaging correctly first, then getting the advantage of distributing the packages I make with my other machines or friends secondly. I believe that after knowing how to package, packaging professionaly would be a matter of following the guidelines. I would like to see the MOTU tutorials more friendly and contains a section for getting it done even in poor quality for the beginners and separate documents for the people who are planning to participate in MOTU efforts. Increasing the size of the people who know how to package and use launchpad for distributing their software personally will defintely increase the size of the MOTU team on the long run. Kindest Regards. -- Rami Eid </div>