On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 07:08:30PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > Yes, indeed, the team could use assistance. I was on vacation and am > catching up on things. I would be happy to start getting more people > involved starting next week.
I'm speaking as a member of the backporters team here. The backports process relies on the small and overworked backports team manually reviewing, uploading and then accepting uploads based on bug reports which often come from users and require any amount of cajoling (either back and forth with the reporter or actually doing the work) to be uploadable. The process is set up in such a way that there is a specific list of things that the requests have to contain, a specific set of meanings for bug statuses and a very onerous amount of testing required for non-trivial backports. Any or all of these things can be wrong per the policy, and they all make it very hard for the backporters team to manage. A new member might manage to triage some percentage of the bugs, but I suspect that very quickly they would get burned out with the process like the rest of us. I think it's proven to be a poor and unworkable process and it should be fixed to enable more developer autonomy. That said, I don't have a new proposal to make right now but I would be interested in trying to work one out. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
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