Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

[Robie Basak]

Hi Mattia,

Thank you for your support, and for volunteering for the second role!

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:56:07PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > [1] To be clear, I believe that the current process requires
> > sponsorship/upload of a suitable backport, and the backporters team only
> > reviews once an upload has taken place.
> 
> I believe you are wrong on this.
> They way the current process is worded, uploads should be done by people
> in ~ubuntu-backports only, effectively causing a huge load on the team.
> The reform needed here (as you more or less imply), is that upload
> rights should follow the usual rules, with ~ubuntu-backports only
> reviewing the uploads once they end in the "unapproved" queue (i have no
> idea how the staging queue for backports is currently called).

The point I was trying to make in my footnote was merely that I'm not
intending to demand that the backporters team take on all the work
themselves as soon as someone requests a backport without providing any
further work themselves.

I haven't checked myself, but there seem to be different opinions on how
it currently works, exactly, based on the discussion so far. However, I
think we're all agreed on the process to reform it, so I'll leave the
details to the newly formed backporters team to sort out :)

Robie
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