Minutes of motu-release meeting, Friday 29th August, 11.00 UTC.

[Stefan Potyra]

Minutes of motu-release meeting, Friday 29th August, 11.00 UTC.

motu-release members present (4/4):
* Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)
* Scott Kitterman (ScottK)
* Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
* Stefan Potyra (sistpoty|work)

Present on invitation:
* Luca Falavigna (DktrKranz)

Relationship between ubuntu-release and motu-release:
There were no objections raised, that ubuntu-release could also approve FFe's 
for universe packages in case of need. Scott noted, that ubuntu-release "may, 
but [they] generally ought not" to approve universe FFe's.
[Note: To reflect this, ubuntu-release was added as a member to motu-release  
on request from Colin Watson].

ACK's for FFe's:
All members agreed to go with 2 ACKs from motu-release for exception requests 
again, as has been the case during the last cycle.

Delegations:
All motu-release members were very much in favour to once again have delegates 
handling relevant subsets of packages.

The following flavors have been agreed on to be handled by the following 
delegates:

- Kubuntu: Jonathan Ridell (Ridell)
- Mythbuntu: Mario Limonciello (superm1)
- Xubuntu: Code Sommerville (code-sommerville)
- Mozilla Team: Alexander Sack (asac)
- Ubuntu Studio: _MMA_
- Ubuntu Destkop: Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- Ubuntu Mobile: Oliver Gravert (ogra)
- Ubuntu MID: Loic Minier (lool)
- Ubuntu Server: Scott Kitterman (ScottK)

Packages covered by delegations:
Scott raised the question, what package sets would be covered by delegates. 
After a short discussion, it was agreed on that every delegate should reply to 
this mail with a set of packages to take release responsibility for. In case 
of overlap, motu-release can then trim down the lists, taking over 
coordination of conflicting packages.

Standing freeze exceptions:
To request a standing freeze exception, an email should be sent to the Ubuntu 
MOTU mailing list for discussions. It is granted, once three members of motu-
release have given their ACK.

At around 12.00 UTC, Cesare, Stefan and Luca had to leave, so that quorum was 
no longer guaranteed. The following points where discussed afterwards:

Per-Package delegations:
In case of need, persons requesting per-package delegations should sent a mail 
the MOTU mailing list with the request, so that it can be discussed there.

Diffstat requirements:
Scott raised the point, to get rid of the requirement to add a diffstat.

Bugfix only releases:
Another point Scott raised, was wether bugfix only releases would need freeze 
exceptions as well.

Misc/personal notes:
Luke will be on vacation for the next two weeks.
Stefan will be on vacation for the next week.

The logs can be found at [1], mootbot wasn't used due to technical problems.

Cheers,
   Stefan.
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[1]: <http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/08/29/%23ubuntu-meeting.html>