[Sugar-devel] Non-maintainer uploads of activities

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 16:46 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> I would like to propose adopting the Debian Non-Maintainer-Upload (NMU)
> process [1] for Fructose. Individual activity authors would also be
> encouraged to allow their activities to be NMU'ed following this policy.
> The sections I'd consider applicable to Sugar Labs are 5.11.1, 5.11.2
> (read debian/changelog as Release Notes) and 5.11.4. Since the version
> number rules are different in Sugar, the NMU should append ".1" instead
> of "+nmu1" (e.g. "123.1" for an NMU based on the maintainer release
> "123").
> 
> A few key points:
> - NMUs are only to be done for bug fixes
> - all bugs that get fixed by the NMU must have been reported in the BTS
>   [2]
> - the maintainer must have been given sufficient time to act (rule of
>   thumb: 2-10 days depending on the severity of the bug that gets fixed)
> 
> The Infrastructure Team [3] would be authorised to manage permissions
> on git.sl.o and a.sl.o as needed for the NMU to happen.
> 
> Since Sugar Labs lacks an equivalent of the Debian New Maintainer
> process [4], I would like to add a requirement that the uploader has
> successfully gone through review for a Sucrose (Glucose + Fructose)
> package at least once and their patch been included in mainline. Note:
> Patch author and uploader can be different persons.

Very good idea, +1 from me.

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