On Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:53:18 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Stefan Potyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Standing freeze exceptions: > > To request a standing freeze exception, an email should be sent to the > > Ubuntu MOTU mailing list for discussions. It is granted, once three > > members of motu- release have given their ACK. > > > > > > Per-Package delegations: > > In case of need, persons requesting per-package delegations should sent a > > mail the MOTU mailing list with the request, so that it can be discussed > > there. > > I'd like to request a freeze exception for the 'fai' and > 'live-initramfs' package. > > The reason is that I didn't merge fai from debian yet. It does not > really make sense testing fai before ubuntu development has reached a > freeze state, since we are talking about an installer. We need a > somewhat installable system in order to properly test and use fai. > > The exception request includes 'live-initramfs'. It is only used by > 'live-helper' and 'fai' for enabling systems to boot from an read-only > medium, such as an CDROM or ro NFSROOT. it has been developed as fork > from our 'casper' package. > > I propose Stephan Hermann and myself as Per-Package delegation for this > set of packages with the purpose of having 'fai' in a useable state for > intrepid release.
While I would agree to grant a freeze exception for both right now, quite frankly I don't see the point in granting a standing-freeze exception or a per-package delegation. Do you really expect that there will be new (non bug fix) upstream releases after the 'lenny' one? Cesare -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
