Place for DDs and DMs to request syncs

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Aug 13 17:46:43 BST 2010


On Friday, August 13, 2010 12:41:21 pm Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:15:19AM -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Lucas has been asking around DDs and DMs on how we can make the sync
> > process more effective for them since requestsync requires people to
> > have an LP account, upload their key, etc. Initial ideas included a
> > mailing list for this kind of thing, which I am against because
> > everyone hates new lists and I would like to encourage this kind of
> > discussion to happen in existing lists instead of segregated out.
> > Would ubuntu-devel@ be an appropriate list for this kind of thing?
> 
> What's the problem with having a LP account and uploading keys?

Since Launchpad already has a ~current set of DD and DM keys available and 
anyone who has a package sync'ed into Ubuntu already has a stub account of 
some kind, why not just pre-create the accounts to work with their keys and 
email addresses?

Scott K



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