On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:28:20 +0100 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote: >Luca Falavigna <[email protected]> writes: > >> How can we help motu-sru to avoid some SRU requests for trivial tasks, >> allowing a greater audience to test packages without the need to >> upgrade? My proposal is to prepare early backports of the most commonly >> used packages in Universe. Starting from Feature Freeze, we could >> identify some packages with high popcon and determine if it's worth to >> prepare a backport for current stable release (new upstream releases, >> new features to be tested, and so on), so the main part of the Ubuntu >> users can effectively test packages and report issues, so they can be >> fixed in time for the release. > >Short: I like the idea. > >I could imagine a lightweight approach: Activate the ~ubuntu-dev (or >~motu) PPA, and use it as "backports-staging" archive. Proposed policy: > >- proposed package backports should be tracked via a malone bug >- any motu may upload there if he feels that a package should be > backported, mentioning the LP bug number >- the backport teams tracks these bugs and approves backports if > "enough" positive feedback from users has been given in the LP bug > The general standard has been one user reporting it builds, installs, runs. For packages with rdepends, they need to be tested too.
This probably seems like a very low standard, but in virtually all cases it proves sufficient. In some cases we ask for more testing if it seems prudent. In short, I don't think we need the PPA step. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
