Place for DDs and DMs to request syncs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 14/08/10 at 10:51 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 14.08.2010, 10:06 +0200 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> > On 13/08/10 at 09:41 -0700, 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?
> > 
> > It adds another barrier to entry for Debian maintainers who are
> > interested in helping Ubuntu by suggesting that specific versions of
> > their packages should be synced to Ubuntu, but are not interested in
> > learning too many details about Ubuntu development processes.
> 
> Getting a Launchpad account  is not really a entry barrier. You can get
> it in a few minutes. Think about getting involved in Debian as Ubuntu
> developer: You need to subscribe to mailing lists and get a Alioth
> account.

Who talked about getting involved in Ubuntu development?
The use case for that is Debian maintainers who aren't interested in
getting involved in Ubuntu development, but know that version 1.0-2 of
their package is really much better than version 1.0-1 (currently in
Ubuntu) because many important bugs were fixed, and would like an easy to
notify someone, so 1.0-2 can be in the next Ubuntu release instead of
1.0-1.
Of course we can advertise requestsync more, but having a fallback
mechanism for people not willing to setup requestsync would be good
IMHO.

Lucas