Delegation of LTS flavour qualification to the release team?

[Utkarsh Gupta]

Hi Robie,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> This will certainly work for now, as long as:
>
> 1) The release team will remember to monitor the TB list and remember to
> make recommendations to the TB as necessary.

Yes.

> 2) Everyone is happy for the TB to ignore these emails unless and until
> the release team bring something up.

Yes - recommendation sent. :)

> That seems inverted to me - I'd prefer for the TB not to get into the
> habit of ignoring (some subset of) emails sent to them, and surely it'd
> be easier to prompt the release team by emailing them? What if we were
> to make a small change to the process by asking for the emails to go to
> ubuntu-release@ instead?

I mean, that's what the process requires: patience. :)

If TB doesn't want to ignore those mails for a bit, the Release team
will have to - either way, think of it as a patience exercise. :)

> I'm not precious about this though. If you're happy with my two points
> above, then maybe it can stay as it is for the moment, and leave it for
> those working on the flavour spec to improve if they prefer?

Indeed - let's leave this as-is for now and we plan to move to
discourse or something - it should be much better then.


- u