Place for DDs and DMs to request syncs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 14/08/10 at 11:01 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 02:57 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> As someone who's really just starting to get both feet wet (I don't yet know
> whether the right or left is Ubuntu or Debian :), I actually think both
> processes are pretty daunting.  Yes, there are lots of folks who can provide
> great help and mentorship, but I also think the tools we use could help make
> things easier.
> 
> For example, let's say I dip my toes into the Ubuntu lake first.  I quickly
> learn that it's best to upload to Debian first and then sync to Ubuntu, but I
> find Launchpad a more comfortable web ui to interact with.  Why is there not a
> big button on e.g. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zope.interface that
> says "Upload to Debian Testing"?

Both projects are still very different, and I don't think that it's
realistic to expect all Ubuntu developers to have enough Debian
knowledge to be allowed to upload to Debian without going through a
sponsor (and vice-versa; for example you need knowledge about the Ubuntu
release cycles to know whether it's appropriate to upload to Ubuntu).

> Or alternatively, I'm already wading in the Debian sea, but I'd like to help
> my Ubuntu friends get the latest and greatest version of packages I maintain
> in Debian.  Maybe it would be really cool if say
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/zope-packages/ had a big button that said
> "Request sync to Ubuntu Main".

The correct place for that would be on http://packages.qa.debian.org, not
alioth. But Debian developers are usually not big fans of Web UIs, so
something that works via email or using a shell script is enough.

L.