Dear Ubuntu Developers, As far as I am aware, the Ubuntu Backports Team has been inactive for years now, and backports requests and uploads just languish in Launchpad. Thomas Ward last proposed an effort to revitalise it over two years ago, but with no response. I believe he's no longer available to contribute now.
My concern is that the backports documentation and process still exist, so users and contributors are being misled into thinking that something will happen, when it won't. I would be very happy for the backports process to continue, but I think it's time to accept that it isn't happening, call a spade a spade, and shut the process down and document this properly to stop misleading users about it. For example, I just handled LP: #1902198 having received an out-of-band ping, and looking at https://bugs.launchpad.net/focal-backports there are multiple recent requests that we know are not going to be answered from a backports pocket perspective. Any objections? If you do object, please provide an alternative proposal that will mean that users stop getting misled. Robie
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