requesting for changes to be sent to debian before sponsoring an upload

[Emmet Hikory]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> I was not suggesting to update the bug title dynamically either, but
> currently contributors use "please merge version nnnn from debian" to
> send their debdiff when they do an update. The title suggests that
> somebody is asking you to do a merge which is on your list where in fact
> they did the work already and are asking for a review and upload.
> Could we change the title used for those request to "please sponsor
> merged version nnn" or similar?

    Oh, I understand.  When we started these (Dapper, I think), bug
titles tended to be "merge for foo x.y-z".  This was ambigous, but not
confusing.  At some point, the "Please" was added to the sync requests
in recognition of the efforts of the archive-admin team, which term
also affected merges.

    The process I tend to recommend is that someone performing a merge
first open the bug (with no debdiff), and then work on it, and then
attach the debdiff and subscribe the sponsors.  As a result, "Please
sponsor" will be misleading after the first stage.  Maybe we should
return to "Merge for foo x.y-z"?

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Emmet HIKORY