Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote:
>Le 05/09/2012 05:39, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> No really, since I think that most of the packages that have been >aimed at the >> ARB are not "this month's beer festival" apps. They are things that >could >> have been packaged normally just fine. >Well, at the end of the day there is also the issue that we expect high > >quality for things that go in the archive and it means it takes time >and >efforts to get something in (some of the stuff uploaded before ff still > >didn't get reviewed in NEW btw). > >I'm sure you will find that on the 130 apps from the app contest lot >will be > >- not up to Debian,Ubuntu archive standards > >- having a developper who doesn't care much about Ubuntu itself, and >our >distribution rules, cycle, freezes, etc ... app writer just want users >to be able to get their software > >- not maintained over time > >Why invest so much time and efforts to grow the number of things that >will then stay buggy and unmaintained in universe and makes our work >even harder (look at how many days we spend fixing years >old unmaintained and unused stuff when e.g GTK starts deprecating >functions or when doing lib transitions) Why invest any time at all? Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
