On Monday 12 May 2008 20:51, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote: > Hi, > Since hardy i have notice that some times contributions are not taking > into account, mostly on merges. For MOTUs and core devels is not needed to > file a bug since it's only needed to upload the package, but some times, a > contributor, which need to file a bug, upload his debdiff and ask for > sponsorship, make the work for nothing, becase one developer (no one in > special) work on that merge and upload it. I think is not fair, and > discourage for new contributor, so i think it lack for a common process > where this things doesn't happen.
I appreciate your problem. I remember such things happening in the past too. It's unfortunate when such things happen, but I don't know what can be done to prevent it completely. MOTU are supposed to check bugs when they do a merge. Ideally we'll have the new merged (pun intended) MoM and DaD up soon so there is one place to go for merge information that can include comments about what people are working on. That should help too. >From our IRC discussion, I gather you had discussed the merge with the previous uploader, but that the MOTU that uploaded his own merge (apparently) did not. While there is no rule requiring people to check with the last uploader, I still think it is generally a good idea (particularly early in the release cycle when there is no great rush to get merges uploaded). That might have avoided the problem in this case. I think we have sufficient process in place (MOTU should check bugs before uploading a merge to see if there are other fixes that should be included) or coming (single source of merge information with comments) to minimize this problem. I don't think we'll ever eliminate it completely. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
