Recently we seem to have changed the process somewhat, removing the documentation about creating bug tasks for stable releases. I propose to reverse this, and give more uploaders permission to create "SRU" bug tasks, for the following reasons.
I've just come across my first review where the creation of bug tasks hasn't been done. The most obvious thing to me is that I now don't know which other queues to look at in case the uploader is fixing multiple releases at once. I can't collapse my reviews for an SRU to multiple stable releases into one review. Separately, I believe this change (partially at least) came about because non-core-devs were asking for permission to be able to create bug tasks themselves, rather than having to ask in #ubuntu-bugs all the time. IMHO, this change loses us the following: 1) ~ubuntu-sru ability to tell what is intended for SRU as above. 2) Contributor (eg. Canonical STS) ability to track status of progress of work towards SRUs before they are accepted by the SRU team. I would prefer to give more contributors the ACL bit such that they can create "SRU" bug tasks. For example as soon as they can demonstrate that they understand what the tasks are used for, ~ubuntu-sru should be able to add them to the team. Can we go back to what we did before, or at least make adding the bug task a recommendation rather than a requirement (so that those who cannot do not have to waste time getting it done), but be more liberal with who has permission to create these tasks please? I believe that creating these tasks was originally restricted because there were problems with people creating them gratuitiously. I don't think that'll apply to people who have successfully uploaded SRUs to the archive. Thanks, Robie
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