Hi, ajmitch brought up the Stable Release Updates policy draft (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU) in #ubuntu-motu earlier today. A couple of hours of discussion ensued, resulting in the development of a process which all non-security updates to stable releases for universe and multiverse must go through. The proposed process was developed by imbrandon, LaserJock, ajmitch, lifeless and myself (Fujitsu), and is as follows:
* The initial debdiff is uploaded to the bug by a MOTU (or ACKd by one, if uploaded by a non-MOTU). * The MOTU (or the MOTU that approved the debdiff) uploads the package to -proposed for wider testing. * The packages stays in -proposed until at least 5 people add "works for me" comments to the bug, and at least 5 days have passed since it was uploaded to -proposed. * Once those two conditions have been met, the motu-sru team is subscribed to the bug. * After the motu-sru team OKs the update, the MOTU uploads the package to -updates. * The motu-sru team and the author of the debdiff remain as bug contacts for the package for at least the following 2 weeks in order to get notifications of any regressions. The purpose of this email is to attract further comments on this process from more people than just those involved in the IRC discussion earlier today. So, feel free to reply to the list with any criticism/praise/support/whatever, or add such comments to the bottom of the aforementioned page on the wiki, and we'll hopefully have a reasonable stable release update policy in the near future! Thanks, William Grant.
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