git-ubuntu MPs in the sponsorship queue

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 05:41:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> 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].

The sponsorship queue is updating and its content is available here:

https://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/index.html

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Brian Murray