[Oneiric-Topic] SRU Process

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:02:11 AM Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Scott Kitterman's message of Wed Mar 30 08:31:15 -0700 2011:
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
> > 
> > It's driven by user request and testing.  In the case of packages with
> > rdepends we require testing of those as well (sometimes rdepends need to
> > be backported as well) so we don't leave users with a broken system.  A
> > reasonably large fraction of users enable backports, so we need to be
> > careful (you should have seenthe flurry of bug reports when I did a
> > backport that broke Flash).
> > 
> > Once we have not-automatic fully deployed we might be able to reconsider
> > this.
> > 
> > Backports are a purely community driven process, so we're always looking
> > for more help.
> 
> Scott, I think it may be worth arguing for a bit more of the
> Canonical-Employed server team members' time if backports achieves the
> level of usability that seems very close. I think it would certainly
> make upstreams happier too if instead of cherrypicking medium priority
> fixes into -updates, we just put critical fixes in -updates and pointed
> anyone wanting those nit-pick bugs fixed at backports.

That's exactly the model we'd like to have.  More contribution is, of course, 
welcome.  

I would really like to minimize the amount of out of archive stuff our users 
need to get their needs met.  Backports is, IMO, an important part of this.

Scott K