Proposing MIR process simplification

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 12:19 -0800 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:41:21PM +0100, Martin Pitt 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!
> 
> I see that this has been announced now, but I'll throw in my 2 cents anyway
> - I've actually come to find the wiki drafting useful because there's a
> template for the MIR wiki page and there's no template for writing the bug
> report, so for me MIR writing is mostly in-place editing of a checklist...
> so I find the wiki template to be a very useful framework.

How about creating for filing MIR reports? It could work similar to
requestsync for sync requests.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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