On Sunday 15 July 2007 18:21, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2007-07-15 17:45:37 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:20:16 +0200 Michael Bienia > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > >I don't know what the best solution for this but it should work for both > > >main and universe packages easily. > > > > Personally all these option seem FAR more complex than just asking the > > person that dealt with it last. > > The last uploader has not to be the last merger. > Person A does a merge, person B does an upload (say for a rebuild or an > easy fix) -> MoM lists B as last upload. But asking person A about the > new merge can be more helpful than asking person B. > > I've the impression that MoM works for main better than for universe. > Main has small teams caring for specific packages sets (like Gnome) > where the same team or person does the merges. > MOTU is a larger team and doesn't have this "ordering" like main. > Relying on the "Last Uploader" field on MoM doesn't work for us. We need an > other mechanism to coordinate our efforts. > > An aggressive suggestion would be to drop the "Last uploader" field for > universe package from MoM if it doesn't work out for us and "lock" > merges with "In progress" bugs (or through some other means). > All of which is still way more complex than asking.
Part of the beauty of asking is that one can look in debian/changelog and it's pretty easy to understand who to ask without a lot of rules or adding weight to the process. The more time people spend on process overhead, then less work actually gets done. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
