patch piloting the week starting 24th may

[Robert Collins]

During the week I got tired of Martin[gz]'s patches, so asked Martin
Pool if we could make him a committer - and Martin [Pool] said yes, so
congrats to Martin[gz]. There were a few patches slightly stagnant but
we were mostly in good shape, and the week finished well.

Martin Pool suggested that the patch pilot person might be a good
person to do releases (late in the week - sorry Alexander) and so I
did a 2.1.2 and 2.2b3 release - it did seem less likely to cause
friction than if I'd been doing feature work.

OTOH the release process needs more automation:
 - the news-bugs scanner needs to be updated to handle series and only
look at new sections
 - we need something to say 'hey, this code hasn't been released yet'

Picking up someone elses proposed merge and finishing it isn't
seamless for reviewers, but we should be able to do something with the
LP API to emulate a 'resubmit' to a different proposer. LP will change
the API here eventually, or perhaps we can play around a bit to find
out what we need and put a patch up for it.

Thats really about it :)

Cheers,
Rob