git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

[Robie Basak]

I've arranged for MPs against git-ubuntu repositories to appear in the
sponsorship queue[1]. Please could all sponsors handle these MPs just
like any other sponsorship request?

I appreciate that the git-ubuntu repo isn't the right place to push
changes when there's a team maintaining a "more upstream" packaging
repository somewhere else. I'm not trying to change that.

But I've noticed that we do seem to have a culture of accepting
contributions in whatever form they arrive in. For example, most
sponsors would accept a debdiff from a bug, even if they're really
maintaining a packaging branch in git somewhere.

So, I'd like to socialise the idea that sponsors should review
git-ubuntu MPs as-is, even if the target is "wrong". Sponsors can rebase
and push to the right place themselves before upload if/as needed, just
as they might with a debdiff. Just dput without pushing to git and
marking the MP as "Merged" manually would also be fine from git-ubuntu's
perspective. There would be no requirement or expectation to touch
git-ubuntu in any way, except to use the MP for review iterations as
needed. Of course repeat contributors should, in time, be guided in how
to submit requests to minimise our review work.

I noticed that people have been filing MPs against the git-ubuntu
repositories, but these were languishing because we don't have a process
to get such MPs reviewed. We already have the sponsorship queue, so this
seemed like the simplest way forward to ensure that the MPs don't end up
entirely ignored.

Note that the sponsorship queue itself is offline at the moment. There's
an IS ticket to get this restored. In the meantime you can also see the
sponsorship request MPs against git-ubuntu branches from the
~ubuntu-sponsors +activereviews page[2].

[1] https://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/index.html
[2] https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sponsors/+activereviews
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