Place for DDs and DMs to request syncs

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:42:49 am Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:12:42PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Scott Kitterman [2010-08-17 14:25 -0400]:
> > > Did anyone agree to read this list and do the syncs?
> > 
> > Ubuntu archive admins are expected to be on ubuntu-archive@,
> 
> I don't think this expectation has been communicated very well.  I've never
> been on that list in all the time I've been an archive admin, and don't
> think it would be useful to me to do so; and I don't think it should be
> another queue that the archive admins should check for incoming requests,
> when archive admins are already spread rather thin.  I would prefer to see
> a workflow that lets any Ubuntu dev pick up such a request from a
> widely-read list (such as ubuntu-devel) for injection into LP, instead of
> having archive admins sift these out of all the bug traffic on
> ubuntu-archive.

I'll second that.  When I've needed to see the list, I've looked at the web 
archive.

> > and judging by who sends "Rejected foo" messages quite a lot are indeed.
> 
> I send messages there because *sending* them is the process that has been
> communicated to me; that's quite a different thing than *reading* the list
> on an ongoing basis. :)

Yes.  Precisely.

Scott K