Request: Move xubuntu seeds from ~ubuntu-core-dev/* to ~xubuntu-devel/*

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:41:22AM -0400, Cory K. wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:40:12PM -0300, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> It seems a little bit awkward for ubuntu-core-dev to be a member of
> >>> xubuntu-devel, but so long as this team is only used for those branches, I
> >>> don't see a problem with it.  It probably shouldn't receive any email
> >>> notifications, have an emblem, etc.
> >>>       
> >> Maybe there is a less awkward solution? Would you prefer there to be an
> >> xubuntu-seeds group or something?
> >
> > If the reason for the team's existence is to host the branches, is it a
> > problem for those branches to only be editable by members of xubuntu-devel?
> > It should be easy enough to add people to that team as necessary, rather
> > than adding ubuntu-core-dev implicitly (I expect that very few of the people
> > in that team have reason to change the Xubuntu seeds).

It used to be that anyone making a change such as changing the kernel
version in the Ubuntu seeds had to merge them everywhere (if they were
in a hurry; otherwise they could just wait for the flavour owner to do
it). This is no longer so critical.

I would like to have access to the Xubuntu seeds, though; I still need
to make general seed changes from time to time.

> This is how Ubuntu Studio currently handles things. Colin was added to
> the ubuntustudio-dev team in case he had to do something. It's worked
> out well so far.

Except that I get a lot of bug mail for inkscape, blender, and the like
that I'm not really interested in. A separate team for the seeds would
be better. I don't know if something similar is the case for
xubuntu-devel, but I wouldn't want to have to get bug mail for all XFCE
packages as well just to be able to edit the Xubuntu seeds occasionally.

(But don't go changing things for Ubuntu Studio straight away; the team
names are unfortunately hardcoded in various bits of software so you
need to coordinate with me.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]