[needs-packaging] I'd like to submit the Jalbum package for inclusion in "Universe"

[David Ekholm]

Jalbum is a popular tool for making web photo albums with thumbnail pages and slide shows. Albums can be served from any web server and can have any appearance. There are over 26 million web photo albums published with Jalbum to date. Jalbum is being extended, translated and supported by an active open source community.

URL: http://jalbum.net/software
License: Usage: Albums created by Jalbum can freely be used in any context, both personal and commercial. Code: Generic components under LGPL (http://jalbum.net/developer/license), 99% of the plugins (skins) are open source, core code still not open, but planned to be opened. Any help in this process from the Ubuntu community is appreciated.

Notes: Jalbum requires Sun's Java 5 or Java 6 to execute

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

Please make sure you follow the guidelines for new package requests [1]. I must warn you though, if the application is not currently fully open source, then you may have some problems getting it into Universe.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[David Ekholm (david-jalbum)]

I'm sorry I missed to go by that formal formatting of the "needs packaging" request. I notice the status has been changed to "Wishlist", not knowing what that means, I hope it is one step forward.

Here is a corrected formatting. I've I've missed out on anything, please let me know:

[needs-packaging] Jalbum

Jalbum is a popular tool for making web photo albums with thumbnail pages and slide shows. Albums can be served from any web server and can have any appearance. There are over 26 million web photo albums published with Jalbum to date. Jalbum is being extended, translated and supported by an active open source community.

URL: http://jalbum.net/software
License: Usage: Albums created by Jalbum can freely be used in any context, both personal and commercial. Code: Generic components under LGPL (http://jalbum.net/developer/license), 99% of the plugins (skins) are open source, core code still not open, but planned to be opened. Any help in this process from the Ubuntu community is appreciated.

Notes: Jalbum requires Sun's Java 5 or Java 6 to execute

19 feb 2010 kl. 22.55 skrev Gabe Gorelick:

> Please make sure you follow the guidelines for new package requests [1].
> I must warn you though, if the application is not currently fully open
> source, then you may have some problems getting it into Universe.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages
>
> --
> I'd like to submit the Jalbum package for inclusion in "Universe"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524359
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> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I'm the founder of Jalbum (http://jalbum.net/software). We've finally adopted our web photo album software for Ubuntu 9.10 and packaged it as a .deb package at http://jalbum.net/download/8.6/Linux/NoVM/jalbum_8.6.1_all.deb.
>
> Jalbum is true freeware*, no crippleware and Jalbum is partly open source - generic code under LGPL but still some core code still not opened (but planned to). We have an engaged open source community around us that helps supporting and extending the product. Jalbum has also been translated to 32 languages by our users.
>
> Jalbum is very popular on Windows and Mac with over 5 million downloads and over 26 million published web albums to servers all over the world. Now we want to give Ubuntu users a smooth experience installing and running Jalbum too! We figure, getting into "Ubuntu Software Center" is the ideal path, hence this "needs-packaging" bug report. I gather we should apply to get into the "Universe" component with Jalbum.
>
> Two things sets Jalbum apart from other tools and services for web photo albums:
> * Albums can be hosted on any web server
> * Albums can have any look and feel and behavior. This is all determined by plugins to Jalbum we call "skins": http://jalbum.net/skins. Jalbum skins are developed by our users in a true open source spirit! (http://jalbum.net/developer)
>
> Jalbum needs Sun's Java 5 or Java 6 to execute.
>
> Footnote: We make revenue from running a hosting service for albums, but there is no requirement to host Jalbum albums with us.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.