Comment 7 for bug 681471

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Ok, /reviews it is. :-)

There are two read-write actions for reviews, that I can think of. The short-term one is moderation. The longer-term one is letting developers reply to reviews. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that they should reply in the same place as they see those reviews and average ratings and installation statistics for their applications, which should be the same place they submit those applications in the first place, which should be developer.ubuntu.com.

You're quite right that we should eventually publish reviews on the Web for the benefit of people who aren't running Ubuntu right now. But that will be a read-only action, so I think it has quite a bit less in common with moderating than replying does. And we already have a site for that, apt.ubuntu.com (currently being worked on at <https://launchpad.net/apturlredirector>). apt.ubuntu.com is not a great domain name, but I think software-center.ubuntu.com would be a bit worse for two reasons: (1) there's apparently a non-zero chance that USC will be renamed in the medium term, and (2) software-center.ubuntu.com is 12 characters longer and therefore quite a bit less tweetable.