Requesting help/no response to pings

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 9:29 PM Utkarsh Gupta
<utkarsh.gupta at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM Christian Ehrhardt
> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > - Release team: I asked utkarsh2102 and his management chain,
> >   and they donated his time for Tue/Wed/Thu.
> >   Thanks to his team for spending his time - it is important to us!
>
> Just to summarize my involvement in the last couple of days -
>
> ### 24.10 - Oracular Feature Freeze
>
> - Assessed all the FFe in the backlog - over 20 of them.
>   - Most of them have been approved but I've asked for more information.
>   - If you're someone who filed an FFe, please take a look.
>   - If by chance your FFe slipped through, please reach out to me.
> - Sponsored a few uploads for fellow contributors.
> - Sync'd a package as requested.
> - Added hints for lxqt qt6 transition for RikMills.
> - Helped with some other transitions ongoing.
> - Triggered rebuild for Edubuntu on Erich's request.
>
> ### 24.04.1 - Noble point release
>
> I assisted Lukasz for the Noble point release with the following:
>
> - Checking phased updates. Raising questions when things look "not good". :)
> - Analyzing package diffs for each participating flavour.
> - Assisting w/ riscv64 testing - thanks Christian and Lukas.
> - Updating wiki.
> - Pinged IS to clear content-cache for changelogs*.
> - Moderating mail on ubuntu-announce at .
> - Disabling the SRU freeze.
> - Assisting flavours with their testing - thanks arraybolt3 for Ubuntu
> Unity & MATE tests.
> - And all the other small items here and there.
>
> ### 22.04.5 - Jammy point release
>
> Given how strenuous Noble point release was, I wanted to look for
> blockers and resolve them ahead of Jammy point release, scheduled on
> 12th September.
>
> - Updating wiki.
> - Assisting Mate with cd-boot-images-* along w/ Christian, Andreas and Robie.
> - And all the other small items here and there.
>
> ### Release/DMB
>
> I also assisted a few people blocked who were blocked for things ACL
> wise by adding packages to packageset -
>
> - Added 3 packages to kubuntu packageset as requested by Scarlett.
> - Added 15 packages to kernel-dkma packageset as requested by Timo.
> - Added 4 packages to kernel packageset as requested by Timo.
>
> Let me know if I missed anything. Hope it helped & unblocked a bunch
> of things. :)

It did indeed help a lot Utkarsh!
Thank you for the help and the summary and thanks to your team for
donating a bigger share of your time for a while!

Forgive me for not writing such a nice summary, but the TL;DR is similar
in which I'm happy to have unblocked various cases mostly by processing
removals and component mismatches. That ought to benefit all of us by
avoiding all changes to unblock and land at the very last minute :-)

To no surprise, now even more piled up on me. I'll continue to look
after ubuntu-archive pings in #ubuntu-release, but won't be able to do
regular queue duties [I'll try but I can't hard-commit for a few days].

>
> - u



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Christian Ehrhardt
Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd