[packageset] Should ubuntu-desktop be uploader of desktop-core?

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Resending because apparently my mail settings are all kinds of wrong.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 1:48 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
<cyphermox at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:52 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi DMB,
> >
> > As a very recent ubuntu-desktop member, I have had a look at the related
> > packagesets:
> >
> > - ubuntu-desktop
> > - desktop-extra
> > - desktop-core
> >
> > I see that ubuntu-desktop can upload packages in the desktop-extra set.
> > Would it possibly be in line with the intentions to add ubuntu-desktop
> > as an uploader of desktop-core too?
>
> The intent of desktop-core is to limit access to specific packages of
> the Desktop seeds to Core Developers; where these packages have
> special impacts on the deskop, or on other flavours. That's why the
> sets of permissions are separate.
>
> Changing this would defeat its purpose. I rather we fix the possible
> false-positives when they are identified, or fix the packageset
> generation scripts if they need to be fixed.
>
> For example, 'network-manager' is a package that is under the purview
> of the Desktop Team, but affects all flavours. That's why in the past
> it has been required to have PPU upload rights or to be a Core
> Developer to upload it.
>
> I have nothing against changing the story for these package uploads
> and permissions per-se, but it ought to be appropriately discussed,
> and probably voted on by the DMB; if things have changed sufficiently
> that we think the distinction is no longer necessary.
>
> Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <cyphermox at ubuntu.com>
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