Delegation of LTS flavour qualification to the release team?

[Utkarsh Gupta]

Hi Robie, others,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> In the past, there was overlap between Technical Board members and
> Release Team members. This time, there isn't[2]. So we're now in a
> position where it doesn't seem like we're in a good position to make
> these kinds of decisions without more formal involvement from Release
> Team members. The action item the new Technical Board got passed was:
> "follow up on the Cinnamon 24.04 LTS Qualification to ensure the listed
> contacts can action the flavor". That might no longer be relevant (is
> it?), but the general case still is.
>
> Please could the current release team consider how they want to operate
> with respect to this class of decision?

The Release team discussed this during the sprints and agreed on a
partial delegation, which means, in practice, the Release team can and
will make recommendations to the techboard and let techboard be the
final decision maker for each flavour's requalification.

Let me know if that sounds reasonable. Thank you.


- u