Place for DDs and DMs to request syncs

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 14/08/10 at 16:21 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> On 2010-08-14 15:21:02 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 14.08.2010, 14:57 +0200 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> > > 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.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better for those DD to inform a team (or mailing list)
> and let them handle it further? As those DDs don't want to get involved
> into Ubuntu processes too much (or at all), I wouldn't assume they know
> what to do to get their updated package into Ubuntu besides to inform
> "Ubuntu".

Exactly, that's why Jorge's email suggested a mailing list where Debian
maintainers would send their requests/suggestions, and Ubuntu developers
would then process them.

L.