MOTU-and-Debian meeting?

[Brandon Hale]

I have said a couple times that I think other MOTUs should adopt my
policy of coordinating as many changes as possible with the Debian
maintainer.  Also, I am starting to run into conflicts between NEW
packages I created for Ubuntu and packages created later on a Debian
ITP.  I dropped the ball, I didn't give the NEW packages back and
someone beat me to it.

I think we should have a meeting to come up with a way to coordinate as
much as possible our changes back to Debian, without expecting their
maintainers to regularly check MOM patches.  Can we precede the next
TB/CC meeting? One idea that came up was letting DDs subscribe the
changes over RSS or email via Launchpad.  I'd prefer more one-on-one
communication, and MOTUs getting involved in upstream teams as the next
Debian release opens up.  This obviously won't have to be as long
standing as my relationships with Mono upstream and Debian team for
small one-off changes like CXX transition, but its just as important.

When I brought this up in #ubuntu-motu, I was pointed at a few nasty
threads on debian-devel about this very topic.  A bunch of DDs are mad
that the MOTU aren't proactively giving back.

Thanks for your ideas!
Brandon Hale