motu-release will revert libgems-ruby to the old state.

[Soren Hansen]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:08:02PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> [...] Mathias is in agreement that MOTU Release has the authority to
> supercede uploads that may be considered inappropriate for a release.

Well, I'm not sure I am. The closest to a charter for MOTU-release I
could find is https://edge.launchpad.net/~motu-release that says:

   This team takes care of approving and denying Feature Freeze
   exceptions for Universe and Multiverse.

I don't see how reverting technical decisions done by fellow MOTU's
falls under this authority.

While every MOTU has the power to revert any other MOTU's changes, a)
it's bad manners, and b) it's something entirely different if it's a
team that invents its own authority to trumph "a lowly MOTU"'s upload.

I'm happy to engage in a discussion as to whether motu-release *should*
have this authority. In fact, I'm inclined to think that they should.
I'm simply pointing out that they currently do *not*.

> Separately, I would like to personally encourage all developers to
> [...] and request to MOTU Release to consider the option of a longer
> discussion period prior to superceding an upload except in cases where
> such a delay may adversely impact some specific release milestone.

I'd like to also stress this very thoroughly.

I strongly disapprove of motu-release's conduct in this matter, but done
is done, and I'm not going to revert their reversion by uploading yet
another gems package to do something that I think is better, shinier, or
whatever. I will just be very disappointed if motu-release again decides
that it has authority to carry out a maneuver like this, and to make
matters worse, doesn't leave any time at all for appeal.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
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