Need sponsors to upload new Zope packages

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Gedimas

On 01/09/2010 10:29, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> The blueprint for this work is
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-maverick-zope-packages
> . A wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Zope/Maverick has more
> information and instructions for you.
> 
> The new packages are uploaded to the SchoolTool PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-owners/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=maverick
> Packaging branches are at https://code.launchpad.net/~menesis/ ,
> please also push them to lp:ubuntu/maverick/PACKAGES after upload.
> 
> I hope the PPA is good enough place and I don't need to upload
> everything to REVU. Also, I have not created needs-packaging bugs,
> because that's too much work for a hundred of packages, and they have
> been packaged for several years already.
> 
> Please reply who can help to get this done and how can I better split
> and coordinate this work.

I'm not sure if you've been following the release schedule[1], but
feature freeze[2] was nearly 3 weeks ago. Freeze exceptions are
possible, but especially this late in the release cycle they only apply
to packages that will have particularly high impact on the system as a
whole.

Judging by the feature freeze exception guidelines, it's highly unlikely
that all those packages would get a feature freeze exception, and even
if you did want to apply for one, you would need those needs-packaging
bugs. If you think copying and pasting some text into a bug report is
lots of work, consider those who will have to review all of those packages.

I hope I'm not being too pessimistic here (Daniel, please correct me if
I'm wrong), but I think your best bet is to put some energy into a
concerted effort for getting these packages into Natty when the archives
open up again.

-Jonathan

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze