-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 debian has a very strict procedure to submit new code... only developers can and if you are not a developer you should get some one who help you (there is forums and mailing list for that) David Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > 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 >
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