please stop "pre-promoting" packages

Jonathan Riddell jriddell at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 15 12:40:45 GMT 2010


On 15 December 2010 12:22, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> "pre-promoting" packages is a practice moving a package from universe to main
> without review. please stop it! It may save the promoter a few hours, but it
> adds to the workload of others, and undermines security, QA and the MIR process
> (I have hardly seen a completed MIR for a pre-promoted package).

This is something I was told to do during Maverick because there were
no active ubuntu-mir members.  Has this changed?

Jonathan



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