MRE request: virtualbox

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Gianfranco,

Gianfranco Costamagna [2015-10-29 18:50 +0100]:
> I would like to apply for a micro release exception for Virtualbox

Since [1] we actually did away with (most) explicit MREs, and adjusted
the SRU policy to generalize those.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-September/001152.html

> Upstream:
> 
>   - Micro releases happen from low-volume stable branches,
>     approximately once every two months.
> 
>   - Stable branches are supported with bug fixes for some years
> (normally 5 years + 6 months or more).
> 
>   - Upstream commits are reviewed by members of the Virtualbox Server
>     Engineering team.
> 
>   - All commits to stable branches are evaluated wrt. potential
>     regressions and signed off by the Virtualbox team.
> 
>   - Unit tests and regression tests are run on multiple platforms per
>     push to the source code repository. In addition, there are more
>     extensive test suites run daily and weekly.
> 
>   - Each micro release receives extensive testing between code freeze
>     and release. This includes the full functional test suite,
>     performance regression testing, load and stress testing and
>     compatibility and upgrade testing from previous micro and
>     minor/major releases.
> 
>   - Tests are run on all supported platforms (currently amd64 and i386).

This satisfies the current policy, so this looks fine for SRUing.

Martin
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