Just forwarding this to ubuntu-server@ for awareness.
It has also been posted to Discourse:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/preparing-renewed-microrelease-exception-for-mariadb-requesting-co-authors/60982

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Preparing renewed microrelease exception for MariaDB -
requesting co-authors
To: <[email protected]>


Hi,

Anyone from the server team interested in helping with this?

A little bit of effort and review now could go a long way to secure
continued high-quality MariaDB updates for stable Ubuntu releases for
coming years...

On Mon., Apr. 28, 2025, 12:13 Otto Kekäläinen, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> MariaDB got approved for MRE back in 2014[1] but the wiki page[2] that
> was created later never got it recorded.
>
> I have now drafted https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MariaDB-and-Galera-updates
> in preparation for re-requesting the MRE so that we can follow
> official process to upload microreleases of MariaDB and Galera that
> have only critical bug fixes but not security fixes. For the past 10+
> years there has been 3-5 microreleases annual of MariaDB for every
> supported Ubuntu release, so the process is quite established, but
> most of the the uploads have gone in on the grounds of having at least
> one CVE fix included as well.
>
> I am now seeking for co-authors to help polish
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MariaDB-and-Galera-updates and submit the new
> MRE approval request following rebooted process documentation[3].
>
> - Otto
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2014-May/001941.html
> [2]
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases
> [3]
> https://documentation.ubuntu.com/sru/en/latest/reference/requirements/#new-upstream-microreleases
>
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