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Ubuntu wants to bring applications to users faster
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The Ubuntu team is planning to automate the upload of applications by developers largely because the review team is now overloaded. For the safety of those not tested software manually should ensure AppArmor.
After Ubuntu had introduced the software center, it was also allows external developers to build their applications (for Ubuntu consistently referred to as apps) in the Software Center upload. Before activation but there is a manual review of the app, which, according to a notice from David Planella now leads increasingly to frustration because of the great interest of the developers, as well as on Ubuntu App Showdown read, was the review team is overloaded. Weeks of delays are the result.
Uploads to the Software Center is so popular because it allows app developers, the latest versions relatively quickly bring to the users. The alternative way to package the software for Ubuntu leads, initially on the development version of Ubuntu (or Debian) and to be included in the next official version of Ubuntu. Available at the time of the Ubuntu application has already be outdated. In extreme cases, it is an app that was written for a specific event, and is no longer needed after the event.
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