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Re: 3rd party app ppa

 

I've foreseen it and registered a blueprint about it a long time ago:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/non-official-ppas
Sadly, all my attempts to implement it were futile. Good luck with that.


2013/4/6 Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I wrote almost every third party's debian packaging so that would be me
> maintaining that. I'm up for it, it's just possible it could get out of
> control.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Cody I mean that every third party developer should be able to put his
>> apps in one of our ppa just asking us. We don't have to maintain anything.
>> They must have care of them own stuffs.
>>
>> Il sab, apr 6, 2013 at 2:57 ,Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha
>> scritto:
>>
>> We need to figure out someway to showcase them, but my opinion is that we
>> already have too much to maintain without taking on third parties.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 3rd party apps which follow elementary style are popping up like
>>> mushrooms in the last period. The community developed a lot of awesome
>>> applications like Birdie, Foto, Agenda and many others.
>>>
>>> My idea is to put all of them in one ppa, owned by elementary-os
>>> launchpad team, in order to have them in only one place. In this way I
>>> would be able to have a better platform where get elementary apps to
>>> sponsor in AppCenter.
>>>
>>> Moreover a bigger range of users and testers would encourage developers
>>> to build an elementary app.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Mario
>>>
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>>
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