Proposing MIR process simplification

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> both from a reporter's and from a reviewer's point of view my
> perception is that the MIR process involves too much needless
> bureaucracy. What we really want is reporters to go through the
> checklist and discuss the violations of the MIR requirement standards
> in the bug report, not write lengthy wiki pages with boilerplate text
> (especially not for trivial packages like perl bindings).
>
> So I propose to drop the wiki page reports entirely and just use MIR
> bugs, and discuss the package problems there (as we already do) and
> reduce a MIR to the rationale and a confirmation
>
>  I checked UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements and those were the problems:
>    - ...
>
> or
>
>  I checked that the package meets the UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements.
>
> I prepared a new process documentation at
>
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess/Proposed
>
> Once it's agreed upon and moves to MainInclusionProcess, the wiki
> template [1] should be dropped entirely. I just edited the requirement
> checklist [2] to be up to date wrt. [1].
>
> What do you think? Feedback from u-devel@ (in particular from people
> who often write MIRs) is appreciated!

Martin-

I've written a number of MIRs and I very much support your changes.
I've always found MIR-writing needlessly repetitive, and I've always
found the wiki clumsy for this purpose (LP's ticket-based system seems
far more appropriate).  Thanks for taking the initiative and improving
a process that will very much benefit from some reform.

:-Dustin