Streamlining reviews
Some ideas from the App Developers Roundtable
Require just one vote
Currently is 3 -- might be better to just have 2 reviews rather than "votes"
Any ubuntu developer as a first review
Currently this is ARB-contributors team
why not just add ubuntu-devel to ARB-contributors team?
"archive admin role" -- license check, sanity check from ARB member proper
Archive admin in Ubuntu includes a lintian check -- do we have an ARB-Lintian profile? We have a work item for it already
Relax copyright checking (check with the TB)
We have some tooling but not ideal to validate the dep5 copyright format
Ideal tool would let us white-list some licenses and have the tool scan the dep5 copyright file to make sure it lists every file under at least one of these licenses; failures can be looked at manually.
Restrict code review strictly to security checks
Limit how we can
AppArmor profiles can help us here (eg even a bad app would be ok)
Could we use autopkg test to verify that app at least starts?
Interestingly this provides a convenient way to inform how to write tests.
Anything that can be automated is a good quality check that doesn't add time for us
Integrate arb-lint into Quickly through proper Lintian checks

Some other ideas
Close the queue until it has been cleared out
Review order should be FIFO imong the unreviewed
Among the reviewed it should be FIFO for most recent comment
Forward-copy apps to the next release
Current process is to ask them to refile the app for queue, people who've had their app take months are more likely to drop out here.
Desire: run app against the new automated checks, then forward copy it if it passes; warn them if otherwise.
This needs to be a reliable test (but since we're supposed to have a reliable release pocket this should be ok when automated)

Handling exception cases
not good enough
apparently malicious or dangerous
needs system access

New model proposal:
Technical review - any Ubuntu developers
Compliance review - the ARB

Work Items:
[allison] Draft a new App Review Board process proposal based on the technical review + compliance review model and submit it to the Technical Board and ubuntu-devel
[bhavi] Publicize the process changes and ask Ubuntu developers to review any old apps as first step
[dpm] Investigate best way of having myapps handle first reviews from any ubuntu developers (eg putting ubuntu-devel into arb-contributors team)
[ajmitch] Look at license-checking tools that are available besides licensecheck
[ajmitch] Investigate automated quality tests (eg autopkg test for starting the app without crash)
[dpm] File a bug on MyApps to resort the ARB queue (persia had a good suggestion of how to sort); make a tool to resort ourselves if they won't
[ajmitch] Alternative queue view
[ajmitch] Investigate tooling to rerun tests on apps for next release, warn developers if new failure, forward-copy if otherwise