Role of the Sponsorship Queue

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:06:10PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:49:25PM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:32:16AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > >> Even if no special patch review process were in place, I strongly
> > >> believe that just exposing the patches via +patches is going to
> > >> stimulate a lot of needed attention on patches. ??The ability to sort
> > >> them by age is explicitly designed to help make it easy to give patches
> > >> timely attention. ??The feature of being able to use +patches on teams as
> > >> well as on specific source packages is with the intention of giving
> > >> visibility to patches in infrequently reviewed source packages.
> > >
> > > Oh wow, I didn't +patches worked in a person / team context[1]. ??That's
> > > really awesome.
> > 
> > How does this work? Is it just "person/team is subscribed to the bug"?
> >  Visiting /~kubuntu-dev/+patches and seeing bugs with patches that are
> > filed on packages to which ~kubuntu-dev has upload rights would be
> > nifty...
> 
> Actually it's a bit broader than that.  Not individual bug subscriptions
> but entire package subscriptions.  This makes it quite powerful.
> 
> So for instance, the team ubuntu-x-swat subscribes to a whole mess of X
> packages, which you can see here:
> 
>   https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+packagebugs

I really like this model of having a team subscribed to packages that
they care about as it provides a useful way to create multi-package bug
lists.

--
Brian Murray
Days running lucid: 32
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