Fw: MRE request: virtualbox

[Erich Eickmeyer]

What ever happened with this?

As far as I can see there was no follow-up or follow-through? Even if 
this was discussed on IRC there should at least be some sort of 
follow-up here so this doesn't look ghosted.

Let's try to make sure contributors feel valued in their contributions 
and not taken for granted.

Furthermore, Virtualbox is such an important, high-profile package that 
we really can't afford to let it slip through the cracks again. 
Companies and the community alike rely on Virtualbox for a multitude of 
reasons.

An MRE would streamline this and reduce the burden on the SRU team. 
Therefore, if the SRU team would just work with Gianfranco to come up 
with something that would work, then perhaps we won't have incidents 
like the recent Virtualbox vs HWE Kernel fiasco won't happen again.

Just my two cents, but regardless of the process, leaving a community 
member hanging like this should never happen, and it breaks my heart to 
see it.

Erich

On 9/15/23 03:23, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> 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
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VirtualboxUpdates
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> thanks for considering it
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> ----- Messaggio inoltrato -----
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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
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> Hello Gianfranco,
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> 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.
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> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-September/001152.html
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>> Upstream:
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>>    - Micro releases happen from low-volume stable branches,
>>      approximately once every two months.
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>>    - Stable branches are supported with bug fixes for some years
>> (normally 5 years + 6 months or more).
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>>    - Upstream commits are reviewed by members of the Virtualbox Server
>>      Engineering team.
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>>    - All commits to stable branches are evaluated wrt. potential
>>      regressions and signed off by the Virtualbox team.
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>>    - 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.
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>>    - 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.
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> Martin
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Erich Eickmeyer
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