Re: Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-10-30 Thread Micah Gersten
Actually FileZilla and Deluge are great candidates for backports and just need a bug filed against the appropriate backports project. There was some discussion at UDS about increasing the usage of backports for these types of applications so people can get the latest versions. Thanks, Micah On 1

Re: Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-10-30 Thread Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi
Assalam alaikum Usama, The average user (i.e the group of users we're targeting) doesn't care about what version of software X he is running, as long as it works. For that reason, new versions of software will not land in the Ubuntu main repositories. Furthermore, these new versions can also not la

Re: Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-10-30 Thread Usama Akkad
Wa alaikum alsalam, Bilal this is different from backports. for example Filezilla and Deluge have no problem have more recent release on windows than Linux. You already trust the developers of such applications. Why not help them reach the users directly under your supervision as Ubuntu. You might

Re: Ogv support in software center

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Hardee
It's no secret that this idea sprung from (possibly the lack-of) a Steam-like service. Though it makes sense for Steam to include all steam-community features in one software package, I don't see how this couldn't be extended to the software-center too. I think that Ubuntu-one, and possibly empathy

Re: Ogv support in software center

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Hardee
That is a good point, I think though if we provide a strong template and keep everything consistent and logical it should be ok. I'd imagine only package maintainers could alter the package page to enforce this. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:25 -0

Re: Ogv support in software center

2010-10-30 Thread Kai Mast
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 29.10.2010 21:25, schrieb Chris Hardee: > It's probably been talked about before, but as proposed here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamesIntegration > > I think we need add ogv/movie support in software-center to show > off games and some application

Re: Ogv support in software center

2010-10-30 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:25 -0500, Chris Hardee wrote: > It's probably been talked about before, but as proposed here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamesIntegration > > I think we need add ogv/movie support in software-center to > show off games > and s