Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi folks, > >I've been working with the Ubuntu Touch folks to try to improve how >they're landing changes. At the moment, to try to keep control of >things in the run-up to 13.10, they're tracking all their landings in a >spreadsheet and asking people not to upload things out-of-band from >that >that affect Touch images. A few of us saw some improvements to be made >here and suggested using proposed-migration blocks instead of >gatewaying >uploads, in the hope that that will involve less many-to-many >communication and make it easier to test and approve changes. > >So, I've set up an ~ubuntu-touch-release team with a list of members >given by Alexander Sack, and I plan to give them a hints bzr branch >shortly with the delegated ability to use the "block" and "unblock" >hints. At the moment we have no way to access-control this to just >certain images, but TBH I trust that those people are way too busy at >the moment to want to spend time interfering with anyone else. :-) If >it becomes a problem then I can certainly look into that. > >I realise I didn't discuss this very far in advance (though I haven't >actually set up the delegation yet), which is because it's been >happening too quickly - sorry about that. But I think this level of >control is a reasonable one to delegate to people release-managing an >image and shouldn't cause a problem if we talk to each other. For most >of the time between now and 13.10 a lot of the archive is going to be >blocked anyway, and I expect we'll want to look at how this worked >after >13.10. > >For the avoidance of doubt, if people think this experiment is a >reasonable one, I think it would make sense to extend it to more of the >image release management teams in perhaps a slightly less ad-hoc way; >perhaps each image release management team should be able to >block/unblock uploads within their package set, for instance, so that >it >doesn't all have to be within the primary release team who have full >control and can break anything. What would people think of that kind >of >thing? > >Thanks,
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