<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Emmet Hikory <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:persia@ubuntu.com">persia@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Brian J Mingus wrote:<br>
> Yep! And since this is not a democracy I wonder who at Ubuntu has authorized<br>
> the demise of the REVU system? Isn't it part of Canonical's Ubuntu vision<br>
> and hasn't at least one paid employee been asked to do it? Wasn't that<br>
> person supervised by someone and did they drop the ball? Not to point<br>
> fingers I have no idea how those things work - I just think its an<br>
> unfortunate thing.<br>
<br>
</div> Nobody "authorised" the demise of the REVU system. It was created<br>
by volunteers to facilitate review of packages. REVU has never been<br>
overseen by Canonical, and I do not believe that any Canonical staff<br>
have ever been assigned to ensure it goes smoothly (although I may be<br>
mistaken). REVU's infastructue is provided by UbuntuWire, as a result<br>
of support from Department of Computer Science 4, Friedrich-Alexander<br>
University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.<br>
<br>
The key consideration is that MOTU consists *entirely* of<br>
volunteers. Some of us happen to also be paid for other work they do<br>
in open source or in Ubuntu, but nobody is paid to be MOTU. So long<br>
as MOTU remains the group that oversees REVU, REVU processing by MOTU<br>
will only happen when individual MOTU are sufficiently interested in<br>
processing that queue.<br>
<br>
As Eliot pointed out, one of the best ways to help keep this queue<br>
in shape is to participate in the review of submitted packages. As<br>
Benjamin pointed out, working *also* with Debian is a great way to get<br>
packages into Ubuntu. If you'd like to help, please set to reviewing<br>
and improving packages on REVU, and helping get them assigned a<br>
maintainer and in Debian. If you've questions along the way, please<br>
join us in #ubuntu-motu on freenode: it's a rare time of day someone<br>
won't be happy to help with any questions you have.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Emmet HIKORY</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have plenty of IRC logs of me asking questions in #ubuntu-motu and never getting a reply that beg to differ. And I find it discouraging that this is the best sort of vision that you can muster.</div>
<div><br></div><div>/Brian </div></div>