Change request in the SRU process of docker.io group

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:15:19PM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> >>> While the new language reads much nicer, one nuance that's been lost in the
> >>> process is the idea that we don't SRU the .0 releases but wait until they've
> >>> had a chance to fix bugs and stabilize things with a .1.  Is this a
> >>> deliberate change, and if so, what has changed in terms of upstream practice
> >>> or our QA that makes us think this is no longer a requirement?
> >> Yes, the change to also accept .0 releases is what triggered this
> >> request (in this case a .0 release of runc). After talking to tianon,
> >> the part to avoid .0 releases was meant to be for docker.io mostly,
> >> which at the time was not stable enough, however, this made runc get not
> >> approved.
> >> Regarding docker.io QA, this is more an upstream work, they have
> >> received multiple incentives to improve the quality of their release and
> >> since a while they are quite stable. If we prefer we can keep that
> >> policy to avoid the backport of .0 releases of docker.io, and relax this
> >> for containerd and runc which are more stable in general than docker.io.
> > If docker.io is still providing regular point releases such that waiting for
> > the .1 will not be a big problem for SRUing, then the above would be my
> > preference.

> Awesome. I edited the DockerUpdates wiki page to clarify that .0
> releases of docker.io will not be backported but .0 releases of
> containerd and runc are eligible for backporting. Could you check if it
> is good enough now?

Yes, this looks great, thanks!  Please update the StableReleaseUpdates page
to remove the disclaimer.  (Unfortunately, I'm having authentication
problems with wiki.ubuntu.com at the moment...)

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