Fw: MRE request: virtualbox

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello, I found that an MRE request was acked in 2015 for virtualbox, but since then, the workflow has changed a lot, so
I'm asking again for an MRE exceptiom related to virtualbox.
I already created the wiki page with the process, I will try to update it to match the current expectation criteria

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VirtualboxUpdates

thanks for considering it

G.






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Da: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
A: "costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it" <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>
Cc: "technical-board at lists.ubuntu.com" <technical-board at lists.ubuntu.com>; "security at ubuntu.com" <security at ubuntu.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 4 novembre 2015 alle ore 02:26:02 CET
Oggetto: Re: MRE request: virtualbox


Hello Gianfranco,

Gianfranco Costamagna [2015-10-29 18:50 +0100]:
> I would like to apply for a micro release exception for Virtualbox

Since [1] we actually did away with (most) explicit MREs, and adjusted
the SRU policy to generalize those.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-September/001152.html

> Upstream:
> 
>  - Micro releases happen from low-volume stable branches,
>    approximately once every two months.
> 
>  - Stable branches are supported with bug fixes for some years
> (normally 5 years + 6 months or more).
> 
>  - Upstream commits are reviewed by members of the Virtualbox Server
>    Engineering team.
> 
>  - All commits to stable branches are evaluated wrt. potential
>    regressions and signed off by the Virtualbox team.
> 
>  - Unit tests and regression tests are run on multiple platforms per
>    push to the source code repository. In addition, there are more
>    extensive test suites run daily and weekly.
> 
>  - Each micro release receives extensive testing between code freeze
>    and release. This includes the full functional test suite,
>    performance regression testing, load and stress testing and
>    compatibility and upgrade testing from previous micro and
>    minor/major releases.
> 
>  - Tests are run on all supported platforms (currently amd64 and i386).

This satisfies the current policy, so this looks fine for SRUing.

Martin
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