Delegating hinting for autopkg failures to core developers and MOTU

[Matthias Klose]

[sorry, wrong ML. See ubuntu-devel instead]

On 10.04.19 07:19, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Please can we delegate the hinting for autopkg test failures to core developers
> and MOTU?
> 
> When ignoring an autopkg test failure, you usually have a reason to do so.  As a
> core developer you already can work around autopkg test failures with uploading
> a work-around in a new package version, both for main and universe packages.
> The disadvantage is a longer turn-around, re-triggered autopkg tests,
> introducing a delta which has to be maintained.  MOTU could be limited to only
> hint failures for universe packages.
> 
> The current limitation of autopkg related hints being done by the release team
> seems to be a technical limitation, because other hints are done by the release
> team only.  Of course there should be informal restrictions for hinting during
> archive freezes, release freezes.
> 
> Matthias
>