Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

Thank you for volunteering! As we have at least one qualified person committed, I'd be very happy to see the backports pocket continue. As a concrete proposal, I suggest we do this by reforming ~ubuntu-backporters as follows. In particular I wanted to enumerate a specific transition plan and the r

Re: Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

Hi! Thank you Robie for drafting this! On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:11:33AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > # Team Roles > > For clarity, initially there will be two roles in the team: 1) a > leadership role, driving re-establishment and reform; 2) people doing > the regular day-to-day work, such as r

Re: Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

Hi Mattia, Thank you for your support, and for volunteering for the second role! On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:56:07PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > [1] To be clear, I believe that the current process requires > > sponsorship/upload of a suitable backport, and the backporters team only > > review

Re: Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

On 2021-07-21 14:06, Robie Basak wrote: I haven't checked myself, but there seem to be different opinions on how it currently works, exactly, based on the discussion so far. The last para of is ambiguous, and may explain the differences in opinion.

Re: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 8:38 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > On 2021-07-20 13:58, Dan Streetman wrote: > > Yes, objection here. The backports pocket is still in use. > > > > If I understand correctly, as discussed in much greater length in > > other posts in this thread, the sole problem with the