Hey Release Team, First congrats on getting the new Ubuntu release out!
I'm writing there because I had hoped that having the release sprint a virtual event instead of an in-person one would be an opportunity to make possible to better include others (the persons not at the organized event). In practice it feels like there was not much difference compared to previous cycles and I found that a bit sad. Probably the release-people-are-in-the-room got replaced by release-people-are-in-the-same-hangout but #ubuntu-release on IRC got little attention (I personally asked some questions and pointed out some uploads but got no reply or comment about, I noticed it was true for others as well). The team used a discourse post for status updates, while it's nice to have an idea of where things are it's not a communication channel for the actual work being done on issues. I've personally tried to help with some flagged problems. I debugged a bit lightdm-gtk-greeter segfaulting and discussed that on IRC (got no traction or reply) and tried to help with an audio issue which was flagged by the team by doing some testing and sponsoring a fix which was made available, to realize that others from the in-real-event had been doing the same work, not commenting in public on IRC or updating the launchpad bug status which did lead to a duplicate upload and a rejection. I find the experience quite frustating and at this point I wonder if it's worth for people out of the release team to be actively involved in try to resolve issues or if the team simply prefers to focus as a small group on debugging and fixing things? If outside help is welcome I would suggest we try to make possible for others to stay in the loop, maybe by making the hangout public so it's possible to really join the discussions or by moving things a bit more on IRC? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
