Can I suggest a way forward. I'm not at all interested in being a MOTU. I'm working on a specific piece of open source software, and from that the occassional Ubuntu package drops out which I think would be of use to the general community.
Having gone through the Gutsy development process I feel that package submission is difficult if you are not one of the inner circle or are wanting to join it. And from the other side of the fence there are too many packages and not enough MOTU manpower to look at them all in the depth required. Plus I wonder whether packages put into the main distribution will get the use that is required to justify their position in the index. Nobody wants to waste time with vanity packages. Now that PPA is here, my approach is to stick with packages in my PPA until there is sufficient community use to justify the work required to get them into the main index. I was wondering whether a 'ten community votes required before we look at it for the main index' principle would cut down on the all round effort? Less than that and people should be directed to the PPA system as a way of getting their packages 'out there'. I see PPA as the 'quark soup' from which the universe will form :-) NeilW -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
