Backporting processes.

[John Dong]

Feel free to continue using hoary-backports-staging (unofficial) for testing 
purposes.

On 8/22/05, Martin Meredith <martin at sourceguru.net> wrote:
> 
> Just as an FYI:
> 
> The people who are in the list at:
> https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-backporters are considered as
> "official backporters" this means that they have the rights to poke Mr
> Troup to backport a package.
> 
> At the moment, however, while backports is still in it's ... early stage
> s (for official), I'd like everything to go through me or John for a
> final "ok" ... so - if you see something that needs backporting, and
> you're on the list, then go ahead, test it, make sure it works, and then
> pass the request onto either John or myself, and preferably CC: any
> communication to the list.
> 
> The reason you guys are on board is for the simple fact that, while the
> whole backporting process is still automated, we need you here to help
> with testing etc etc... like before, we had to make sure something
> built, now we have to make sure it builds too... then pass it to elmo to
> upload.
> 
> If something doesnt build, then try and fix it... make sure it builds
> for breezy AND hoary, and then pass it over to me, and I'll either get
> someone to upload (for main) or upload myself (for universe) so that it
> can then be built for backports from breezy
> 
> 
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