First shot at new sponsoring workflow

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 05:14:20PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu developers,
> 
> As discussed in Tuesday's Tech Board meeting, we need to improve the
> workflow for sponsored uploads (or, rather, instantiate such a process
> in the first place).
> 
> After some discussion we quickly agreed that it would be best to use
> Malone, Launchpad, and some magic scripts

This looks fantastic!  Improving this workflow will be very valuable for the
developer community.

> Sponsoring a request
> ====================
> 
> Since Malone's email interface currently does not support attachments,
> requestsponsor puts the diffs inline into the bug report. Therefore it
> is quite hard to grab a diff from the web interface. However, if you
> are subscribed to the team, you get the diff as (gpg-signed) mail.

Malone's XML-RPC interface probably supports attachments by now; it was said
in Paris to be trivial.  Rather than using gpg and asking for the
passphrase, you'd prompt for a Launchpad login and password and make two
XML-RPC calls, one to file the bug and another to add the attachment to it.

-- 
 - mdz