please stop "pre-promoting" packages

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 15 14:20:20 GMT 2010


On 15.12.2010 13:40, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 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

including to ignore the reports for promoted packages?

> Has this changed?

I can't find any reference that pre-promotions were allowed in the first place.

   Matthias



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