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Re: Changes to application submission

 

This is very *very* very cool. Certainly worthy of a blog post, at least.

Thanks for this awesome step James. The automagic dream leaves! :)

Cheers, Rick


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:08 PM, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We just deployed a change to the way applications are submitted. Instead
> of the developer having to fill out lots of information that's already
> in the package (like the package name, description etc.) and things that
> they can easily get wrong (like the version number, the architectures
> etc.) they will now be extracted from the file that they provide. This
> should make the process smoother and quicker.
>
> Given that it's new code there may be some issues though. These will
> often be errors at the "scanning" step, or the pre-filled inforamtion
> being missing/wrong as you fill out the forms. If you find such an issue
> you please file a bug using
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/developer-portal/+filebug, and let me know
> about it. Until it is fixed you can use the link on
> https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/click-apps/ called "New
> application without package", which will use all the old code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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