Re: Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) is a MOTU

2009-01-27 Thread Zhengpeng Hou
在 Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:00:15,Emmet Hikory 写道: congrats > I'm pleased to annouce that Jonathan Thomas has become a MOTU. > Jonathan has been working extensively with the Kubuntu Ninjas, and is > firmly amoung those to thank for both the effective management of > Kubuntu bugs and rapid re

Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) is a MOTU

2009-01-27 Thread Emmet Hikory
I'm pleased to annouce that Jonathan Thomas has become a MOTU. Jonathan has been working extensively with the Kubuntu Ninjas, and is firmly amoung those to thank for both the effective management of Kubuntu bugs and rapid release of available KDE updates. Please welcome him to the team. -- E

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:19:07 +0100 Luca Falavigna wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >When I was a motu-sru member, I realized the great majority of SRU >candidates to be processed were related to visible bugs (crashes when >doing normal tasks, uninstallable packages, and so

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:28:20 +0100 Reinhard Tartler wrote: >Luca Falavigna writes: > >> How can we help motu-sru to avoid some SRU requests for trivial tasks, >> allowing a greater audience to test packages without the need to >> upgrade? My proposal is to prepare early backports of the most com

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:25:35 + Iain Lane wrote: ... > Once enabled, they will >receive updates for all packages that a MOTU cares to upload that they >have installed. ... We have a pending spec about improving this situation. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubunt

Re: motu-release organisational meeting

2009-01-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:05:14 +0100 Stefan Potyra wrote: >Hi, > >On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:03:11 Luca Falavigna wrote: >> Stefan Potyra ha scritto: >> > What date would suit you? Maybe this Friday, at 14.00h UTC? >> >> Probably I'll be buried in office for that time, I'd rather prefer >> Tuesd

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Iain Lane
On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:28, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > - the backport teams tracks these bugs and approves backports if > "enough" positive feedback from users has been given in the LP bug I thought the intent wasn't to use this as staging for backports, but to allow users of stable releases to te

Re: motu-release organisational meeting

2009-01-27 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:03:11 Luca Falavigna wrote: > Stefan Potyra ha scritto: > > What date would suit you? Maybe this Friday, at 14.00h UTC? > > Probably I'll be buried in office for that time, I'd rather prefer > Tuesday, February 3rd at the same timeframe, but I'll try to be there >

Re: motu-release organisational meeting

2009-01-27 Thread Luca Falavigna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Potyra ha scritto: > What date would suit you? Maybe this Friday, at 14.00h UTC? Probably I'll be buried in office for that time, I'd rather prefer Tuesday, February 3rd at the same timeframe, but I'll try to be there anytime (I can't promise I

Re: Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Luca Falavigna writes: > How can we help motu-sru to avoid some SRU requests for trivial tasks, > allowing a greater audience to test packages without the need to > upgrade? My proposal is to prepare early backports of the most commonly > used packages in Universe. Starting from Feature Freeze, w

motu-release organisational meeting

2009-01-27 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi motu-release members, with FeatureFreeze approaching at Feb 19, I guess it'd be good if we schedule an organisational meeting. What do you think? What date would suit you? Maybe this Friday, at 14.00h UTC? Cheers, Stefan. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: Help and sponsor request for package in sponsor queue

2009-01-27 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:59 +0100, Cesare Falco wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize, I've messed up status/assignment etc. on my update > request for sdlmame in the sponsor queue. :( > > Could you please confirm bug report settings are right now? > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318304 That looks

Early backports to reduce post-release fixes

2009-01-27 Thread Luca Falavigna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I was a motu-sru member, I realized the great majority of SRU candidates to be processed were related to visible bugs (crashes when doing normal tasks, uninstallable packages, and so on). This kind of issues could have been addressed in time for t

Help and sponsor request for package in sponsor queue

2009-01-27 Thread Cesare Falco
Hi all, I apologize, I've messed up status/assignment etc. on my update request for sdlmame in the sponsor queue. :( Could you please confirm bug report settings are right now? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318304 they should be, providing these are the most recent updating progress specs: htt