On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 05:41:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > I've arranged for MPs against git-ubuntu repositories to appear in the > sponsorship queue[1]. Please could all sponsors handle these MPs just > like any other sponsorship request? > > I appreciate that the git-ubuntu repo isn't the right place to push > changes when there's a team maintaining a "more upstream" packaging > repository somewhere else. I'm not trying to change that. > > But I've noticed that we do seem to have a culture of accepting > contributions in whatever form they arrive in. For example, most > sponsors would accept a debdiff from a bug, even if they're really > maintaining a packaging branch in git somewhere. > > So, I'd like to socialise the idea that sponsors should review > git-ubuntu MPs as-is, even if the target is "wrong". Sponsors can rebase > and push to the right place themselves before upload if/as needed, just > as they might with a debdiff. Just dput without pushing to git and > marking the MP as "Merged" manually would also be fine from git-ubuntu's > perspective. There would be no requirement or expectation to touch > git-ubuntu in any way, except to use the MP for review iterations as > needed. Of course repeat contributors should, in time, be guided in how > to submit requests to minimise our review work. > > I noticed that people have been filing MPs against the git-ubuntu > repositories, but these were languishing because we don't have a process > to get such MPs reviewed. We already have the sponsorship queue, so this > seemed like the simplest way forward to ensure that the MPs don't end up > entirely ignored. > > Note that the sponsorship queue itself is offline at the moment. There's > an IS ticket to get this restored. In the meantime you can also see the > sponsorship request MPs against git-ubuntu branches from the > ~ubuntu-sponsors +activereviews page[2].
The sponsorship queue is updating and its content is available here: https://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/index.html -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
