Say what?
Isn't Firefox a high-level application? What about LibreOffice? Or Apache HTTPD?
Isn't the distro maintainers the ones who define the release schedules? Doesn't Fedora or SuSE, for example, release the newest versions for Firefox, KDE to the latest on their current distro for example?
I think an Application Store for servers is something redundant, re-engineering the wheel.
But that's my 2ยข.
EDIT: And I'm even talking about similar tools to tasksel.
Firefox and LibreOffice are desktop apps. Apache is a server. We are talking about server apps, in particular web applications. Anybody who has had to install a non-trivial Rails application like Gitlab, Discourse or Redmine, knows that pain.
What happens if the distro maintainers are not doing a good job and keep lagging behind? Shouldn't developers themselves be able to take charge of the situation?
Isn't the distro maintainers the ones who define the release schedules? Doesn't Fedora or SuSE, for example, release the newest versions for Firefox, KDE to the latest on their current distro for example?
I think an Application Store for servers is something redundant, re-engineering the wheel.
But that's my 2ยข.
EDIT: And I'm even talking about similar tools to tasksel.