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