On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Arif Ali wrote:
Currently when a package is sponsored and then uploaded to the unapproved
queue, only the sponsor gets an email, but the uploader/changer/sponsoree
is not notified. The sponsor doesn't have to update the LP bug that this
has been sponsored, although they should.
If a package is rejected (or other state other than being sponsored), the
sponsor gets an email but the person who originally submitted the package
doesn't. The SRU Team member either contacts the person on Matrix or
updates the LP bug, but on some occasions this doesn't also happen.
I suspect that the email that does go to people, there is a "Changed-by"
(similar to the one that Debian sees as well); maybe this can be used as a
field as well as a CC so that both the sponsor and the sponsoree gets any
updates.
I think this could help to speed up the process, if there are any changes
required by the uploader, this can therefore be actioned a lot quicker.
The problem here is with unwanted email going to people who wouldn't
appreciate it.
In your workflow, the person in Changed-By is the person who's really
requesting the upload: they just have to go through a sponsor. I agree
that it does seem as though it would be best to notify both people in
that case.
However, for example, consider the case where somebody takes a Debian
package and "fake-syncs" it to Ubuntu rather than using the "copy
package" facility built into Launchpad; this is necessary from time to
time for various reasons. That looks exactly the same to Launchpad: the
person in Changed-By is the person who uploaded the package to Debian,
but the signer is the person uploading it to Ubuntu. In that case, the
person who uploaded the package to Debian should _not_ be notified, even
if they happen to have a Launchpad account (as many Debian developers do
for one reason or another).
This sort of edge case is why this is tricky; and in the past some
Debian developers have got rightly annoyed about what from their
perspective is unwanted noise from Launchpad, which IIRC is why
Launchpad doesn't email the person in the Changed-By field unless they
have upload permissions to Ubuntu. It's a tricky situation involving a
compromise between several different requirements, and I don't have a
better solution.
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