Hi all, Siegfried-Angel wrote: > to don't waste time reviewing the packages of those people who we have > already lost and who may not come back again, but instead to focus on
I agree with this: we don't want unmaintained packages in Ubuntu. Most of the packages have a maintainer in Debian (and there may or may not be people in Ubuntu caring for them). But getting new packages directly into Ubuntu means we rely on ourselves to completely maintain those packages. For some cases that's not a problem, as there will be some developer or a team (e.g. Desktop, Kubuntu...) taking care of it. But in other cases, it may be possible that we upload a package to the archive some random person created and uploaded to REVU, and once it's in the archive he doesn't keep maintaining it. That's a big problem IMHO, and a solution someone proposed would be to restrict the 'privilege' of getting new source packages into Ubuntu to people who are UUC or in ~ubuntu-dev. I don't think it's particularly difficult to get UUC status, so if people want to contribute, they can start with patches, merges, updates, etc. to packages already in the archive (which IMHO it's easier to get involved, rather than creating new packages from scratch). What do people think about that? Cheers, Emilio -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
