proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:07:03PM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Scott (2011.10.05_18:23:38_+0200)
> > If it's not clear that developers are responsible for this, then we
> > ought to communicate this better (and I include if you sponsor such
> > an upload/sync then I think you are on the hook for this, it's not
> > just up to the non-developer you are sponsoring - hopefully they'll
> > do this, but you (the developer) are the one responsible).
> 
> The sponsors not requesting testing and a transition effort commitment
> is something I've noticed too. I see transition sync requests that I
> don't look at immediately because they'll need a fair amount of
> review, and 10 mins later someone has gleefully sponsored them because
> they build successfully.

I know the same kind of thing has happened to me on occasion.  Maybe we
need to get better at explicitly saying that we think this needs more
than superficial review.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]