November
Meeting 2011-11-25
- Chair: Andrew Mitchell
- Present: Allison Randal, Stéphane Graber, Bhavani Shankar, Jonathan Carter, Luke Faraone
- Apologies: Shane Fagan
- Action Review
- DONE: Explore a "patch pilot" program, where ARB members take scheduled slots.
- DONE: Checked that nothing was copied over to the Precise repository
MyApps access
ARB members have access, https://launchpad.net/bugs/886366 is blocking downloading some apps for review.
- Review pilot scheme
Allison had taken the first session a week prior to the meeting, creating packaging for a few applications & submitting one to Debian
- Issues to resolve
- Quickly creates packages that build-depend on the deprecated python-support, instead of dh_python2
[ACTION] Luke to look into fixing bug 894582
- Applications submitted without source, which need to be
[Action] Allison to create https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review/Responses
- Quickly creates packages that build-depend on the deprecated python-support, instead of dh_python2
- Applications submitted that aren't 'useful'
Discussion of what guidelines we should use for rejecting applications summarised on http://pad.ubuntu.com/arb-guidelines
- Submissions should be applications, not stand-alone documentation or media (image bundles, fonts, movies).
- Apps should not be forks of existing applications in the Ubuntu archive (main/universe/etc).
- Apps must be useful or interesting to a general audience.
The process only applies to a specific version of an application (e.g. PyJunior 1.0 or PyJunior 1.2).
- No other software can depend on the application being submitted (e.g. development libraries should be submitted to main/universe or upstream to Debian instead).
Applications must be Free/Libre/Open Source software. We follow the Ubuntu Licensing Policy [http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-policy/policy.html/ch-archive.html#s-ulp].
- When an application is approved as part of this process, Ubuntu developers may make changes or improvements to a package before it is uploaded to the archive or after it is in the archive.
Applications must be able to be built with tools & libraries in the Ubuntu archive. Apps may bundle additional libraries they depend on, but may not include new versions of already packaged libraries.
Backports & ARB submissions
- ARB applications should be able to depend on backported libraries
- [ACTION] Andrew to ask about technical limitations of ARB apps depending on backported packages
- Next meeting time:
- Last Friday of December doesn't work well for most people, next meeting time was decided as 9th december, 18:00 UTC where we'll decide if we need a mid-January meeting.
- Next chair for meeting is Stéphane Graber
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