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 backports
process is lack of time for the Ubuntu Backports Team to actually
review uploads to the -backports pocket.
If that's the case, then the Canonical Sustaining Engineering Group
is happy to take that over (since 'sustaining' the stable releases
is...our job), please feel free to ping me about ACLs and process
tooling for approving -backports uploads and we'll start reviewing
the queues.
That sounds promising, Dan.
As regards uploads in the queues, I had a quick look yesterday. I found
one item in bionic and four ones in focal. But only one (1) item had a
reference to a bug report with the expected justification, test results etc.
But then we have all the backport requests which are not yet uploaded:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bionic-backports
https://bugs.launchpad.net/focal-backports
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports> gives the impression that the
uploads should be carried out by an ~ubuntu-backporters member in
connection with the review.
So if the Canonical Sustaining Engineering Group steps up — which is
excellent, of course — there still seems to be room for clarification of
the process.
* Who can/should upload?
* Should sponsorship be sought for uploads to the -backports queues?
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Cheers,
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
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