Proposing MIR process simplification

[Chuck Short]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello MIR team,
>
> 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!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportTemplate
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements
>   
Hi Martin,

I am ok with this change as well.

Regards
chuck