Release Team Members: input requested...

[Kate Stewart]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 12:03 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> > Also, for those packages that are in unseeded universe,  FFes and fixes 
> > will continue to be reviewed and accepted into -release until the
> > FinalUnseededUniverseFreeze at April 24 at 0900 UTC (per earlier
> > discussions [1].     Iain, Stefan, Stefano, Scott, Iulian - will one of
> > you volunteer to be the focal point contact?   Am assuming you all be
> > using #ubuntu-motu to discuss/monitor unseeded universe during the time
> > from when the archive freezes?   Is this correct?
> 
> What are you actually looking for here? We aren't required to sign off
> every upload before final freeze, so we just need an archive admin to
> verify that uploads are unseeded, and wave them through.
> We can point archive admins at these uploads, but can't approve them
> ourselves.
> 
> Most of the time, I don't follow the queue flood in #ubuntu-release, as
> it'll probably be approved by an admin without my involvement.
> Or would it be helpful if we did follow it and asked for approvals?

Not sure that its necessary to keep up with the queue bot feed ;), but
a periodic scan of the queue[1] and flagging the ones that may have been
overlooked in the channel would be very useful. 

> 
> It's hard to be a focal point of contact with MOTU, but we can respond
> to any "can I upload this" queries. We get a good few of those, but the
> response is usually "If you have to ask, you should be filing an FFe".

Process pages [2] are calling for a focal point to be established for
the FFEs reviews for universe

If this is the last beta before ReleaseCandidateProcess, 
      * Work with universe/multiverse community to identify delegates to
        approve Feature Freeze Exceptions, in addition to ubuntu-release
        until the date of Final Freeze for universe. 
      * Set the Final Freeze date (typically at release minus 5 days)
        for universe/multiverse for the packages that are NOT found on
        any installation media. 
      * Broadcast universe/multiverse delegates and final freeze date to
        ubuntu-devel-discuss and ubuntu-devel-announce. 

( yes, This needs updating to reflect from 5 -> 2 days... :/ )


Kate


[1]
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaProcess