clearing old ARB submissions

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Allison Randal <allison at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> As suggested in:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079937
>>
>> It's probably about time to do a queue flush on old submissions. In the
>> past we did this by release: since the ARB only approves apps for the
>> current release (quantal), we drop all submissions entered for precise
>> and earlier releases. The apologetic comment to the app author will
>> invite them to resubmit after they test that their app works properly on
>> quantal.
>>
>> If the ARB members decide this is an appropriate action to take at this
>> time, I volunteer to help with the effort of drafting a friendly note
>> for app authors, and with closing out old submissions.
>>
>> Allison
>>
>

Hey Allison,

Thanks for bringing this up. I think it would be a good idea. I am
working on the integration of ARB profile into lintian presently [1]
and would like to have a review week post that if everything seems to
be working fine with arb-lintian

+1 from me

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavi/ubuntu-app-review-board/lintian-arb_profile

Regards,

(Sorry for the broken previous mail as I am in a low intermittent
internet connectivity here on a vacation)

Bhavani Shankar
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