Ubuntu Wiki

Meeting 2011-11-25

• Chair: Andrew Mitchell
• Present: Allison Randal, Stéphane Graber, Bhavani Shankar, Jonathan Carter, Luke Faraone
• Apologies: Shane Fagan

• 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.

• Allison had taken the first session a week prior to the meeting, creating packaging for a few applications & submitting one to Debian

• 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

• 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.