Per-pocket upload permissions

[Stéphane Graber]

On 06/14/2012 07:24 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> My fix to https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/914779 (second time
> lucky) will hopefully be rolled out tomorrow, or failing that on Monday.
> Once that's in place, I would like to add the following upload
> permissions as suggested by Iain Lane:
> 
>   -backports: ~ubuntu-backporters
>   -security: ~ubuntu-security
> 
> Iain also suggested -proposed/-updates: ~ubuntu-sru, but I don't think
> that makes so much sense; ~ubuntu-sru has more of a queue admin kind of
> role, so I'd prefer that to wait until I get round to a bit of follow-up
> work to allow per-pocket queue admins.
> 
> Please note that this does not affect the policy on what goes into the
> unapproved queue.  For example, uploads to stable-backports always
> require approval by somebody with appropriate queue admin privileges.
> The difference this will make is that, for example, members of
> ~ubuntu-backporters who aren't in ~ubuntu-core-dev will be able to
> upload backports of packages in main without having them outright
> rejected by Launchpad before they even get to manual queue processing.
> I believe that we agreed a UDS or two ago that it would be fine to allow
> ~ubuntu-backporters blanket upload access to their pocket once the
> software was ready for it, and now it is.
> 
> Thanks,

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me and matches what I remember from the
discussions we had at the past few UDS.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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