In the ARB meeting today, we discussed the earlier proposal for handling Lenses and Scopes, and also a new proposal from Stéphane Graber:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-February/000484.html We voted and decided to accept the new proposal. To summarize: - The ARB will maintain a bzr repository for each Lens source package. - When new Scopes are approved for a Lens, the ARB will add them to the lens source package, and release an updated version of the Lens source package including the new Scope. - The debian/copyright file for the combined source package will note the separate copyrights for each Lens/Scope author. - As with all ARB apps, we won't carry any packages over the transition from one Ubuntu release to the next (e.g. Oneiric->Precise). So, each Lens author is responsible to test their Lens on the latest release of Ubuntu and resubmit, and each Scope author is responsible to test their Scope on the latest version of the Lens and resubmit. We generally consider this approach to be the cleanest technically, and the lowest workload for the ARB, so it ranks high on our two greatest criteria. We plan to re-review the practice at the start of the Precise cycle, and decide if we need to make any changes based on practical experience from Lenses and Scopes in Oneric. This practice involves no policy changes, so doesn't require any action from the TB, though any comments are welcome. Thanks, Allison -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
