Question about submitting patches for repositories on Launchpad

[Alexander Koskovich]

Steve Langasek wrote:

> Which branches are you looking to submit to? There are lots of branches
> that unfortunately we don't have monitoring of. MPs are great, but I
> wouldn't want you to do work on one only to have it go nowhere because no
> one is listening.

I submitted my patch to the 'master' branch since that looked to be active development, ubuntu/devel seemed abandoned.

https://code.launchpad.net/~nexusprism/curtin/+git/curtin/+merge/439880

I have an MP here, is this the correct way to go about it, or would I need to seek sponsorship like you had mentioned?