Working with your Debian maintainer

[Michael Hall]

Hi everybody, my name is Michael Hall and I've recently joined the 
Community team under Jono as the Upstream Liason.

As part of my new position, I wanted to hear about how Ubuntu developers 
are communicating and working with their upstream maintainers, 
specifically Debian maintainers since they are a particularly special 
upstream for us[1].  So if you do any work on packages we derive from 
Debian, please take a moment to answer some or all of the following 
questions:

Do you know the upstream maintainer for the packages you work on?  If 
so, how well?  If not, do you  know how to find out?

How often do you communicate with upstream about changes (either bug 
fixes or enhancements) being made to their packages?  And when do you 
start that communication, before the work is done or after?

How do you feel your contributions have been received upstream, both my 
the maintainers themselves and the larger upstream community?  Do you 
get positive, helpful feedback in your communications with them?


[1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/ForUbuntuDevelopers

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Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com