Application for Coredev (ddstreet)

[Dan Streetman]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:20 PM Lukasz Zemczak
<lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Dan!
>
> First of all, sorry for not being able to attend this week's DMB
> meeting! Let's try to get this rolling by e-mail then.
> Let me start off with my first batch of questions. There will be some
> follow up questions to the answers provided here.
>
> 1) Have you worked on any Ubuntu transitions, merges or NBSes before?
> Could you give some examples of your work in these areas?

No.  I don't intend to do much/any work in those areas; my focus will
be in other areas, mostly fixing bugs in devel and SRU releases, as
well as improving tooling for fixing ubuntu in general.

>
> 2) You are waiting for a package to migrate from -proposed to the
> release pocket in the development series. Could you list some of the
> reasons why a package can be held back from auto-migrating? How would
> you solve some of the issues?

FTBFS; check logs and see why build failed - typically an uploader
mistake and will require fixing build failure and re-upload
reverse-dep autopkgtest failure/regression: large variation on why
they fail, but those not marked as 'expected fail' or 'always failed'
need to pass, or get marked to be ignored.
reverse-dep autopkgtests still running: there can be a loooooot of
reverse-dep tests for some pkgs; it can take a looooong time sometimes
to run them all.  patience is the only cure.
missing runtime deps : oops, someone uploaded something out of order -
get those deps uploaded first

this is one area where, as i mentioned, tooling (pre-upload) could
really be improved.

process is described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ProposedMigration

>
> 3) Related to 2) : in cases where the output_excuses page of a
> non-migrating package doesn't give you any information about why the
> package is not migrating, where would you look for clues?

do you mean update_excuses?  I'm not familiar with output_excuses.

If update_excuses didn't list any obvious blockers I would assume
there was some dependency issue and go check the specifics for the
uploaded waiting pkg.

>
> Thanks!

Thanks!

>
> Cheers,
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 17:56, Dan Streetman <dan.streetman at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Meeting wasn't held today (only 3 DMB members showed up) so this is my
> > request to consider my request via email.
> >
> > DMB members, please let me know what questions you have re: my application.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:02 PM Dan Streetman
> > <dan.streetman at canonical.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, I'm applying for Ubuntu Core Developer at next week's meeting.
> > >
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ddstreet/coredeveloper
> >
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