On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:18:01PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello SRU team, > > the Tech board recently received a proposal to forego the review of > -proposed uploads and directly accept them into -proposed: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-May/001613.html > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-May/001618.html > > In today's TB meeting there was unanimous agreement that this is not a > flaw in the defined SRU process, but a flaw in its execution. We do > not want to give up peer review for what goes into stable releases, > and rather want to address the workflow problem in the SRU team. Does > that match your feeling as well, or do you feel differently? > > There are obviously problems with getting timely reviews at the > moment: many items in the precise and quantal queue are one to two > months old already, and even raring's queue has rather simple SRUs > which are already three weeks old. > > It seems the regular reviewing days got dropped some time ago. How is > the reviewing process currently meant to work, and what do you see as > the reasons that it doesn't? Would reintroducing regular review days > help against them never turning into your focus otherwise, or have > they been ineffective as well? Mabye the team is even too big now for > anyone to feel sufficient responsibility for doing reviews?
While I'm not personally affected by this too much, I can imagine that it is demotivating to some SRU team members to spend time reviewing debdiffs and SRU bugs only to have the package sit in -proposed unverified for weeks. -- Brian Murray
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
-- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
