How to handle sponsor request not suitable for the current release period

[Benjamin Drung]

Hi,

The current process (described in UbuntuDevelopment/CodeReviews [1]) for
handling sponsor request not suitable for the current release period is:

1. Let the contributor know that the patch is not suitable for the
current release period.
2. Unsubscribe ubuntu-sponsors.
3. Subscribe yourself to the bug report (this ensures it shows up in the
following url)
4. Milestone the bug to 'later'.
5. Visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/people/+me/+bugs/?field.milestone%
3Alist=196 once the new release opens and upload the fix. 

I don't like this process, because some request could get lost if step
five is forgotten. I propose following change:

1. Let the contributor know that the patch is not suitable for the
current release period.
2. Add a tag that indicates that the bug is delayed to the next release
(for example, deferred-to-natty)

Then the sponsor overview [2] needs to be adjusted to understand the tag
from point two. The list will be split into two lists. The first list
will contain the bugs that needs to be processed. The second list will
contain the deferred bugs. Once the new series is open for upload, the
deferred bugs will be moved back to list one.

This concept could be extented to bugs that require work from the
requester. All bugs that are Incomplete could be put on list two.

What do you think? Do you have better ideas?

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/CodeReviews
[2] http://people.ubuntu.com/~bdrung/sponsoring/ until my patch is
merged to http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/

(PS: It's hopefully the right list now)

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