Review Sponsorship Process

Registered by Daniel Holbach

During Natty we started the patch pilot programme. Let's review the progress we made and what could be done in a better way.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Daniel Holbach
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Daniel Holbach
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for oneiric
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-11.10
Started by
Daniel Holbach
Completed by
Daniel Holbach

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Work items:
[dholbach] talk to James Westby about merge proposals for old releases (series is locked after release and so sponsors can no longer alter merge proposals - bug 612391): DONE
[dholbach] talk to Nigel and Brian about removing the patch flag of attachments instead of tagging as patch-needswork (instead suggest to tag as 'bitesize' as well, so they can be picked up): DONE
[laney] look at writing a script to identify debdiffs on bugs which don't have sponsors subscribed: DONE
[dholbach] make sure that "work in progress" mp status is documented: DONE
[bdrung] Enhance sponsorship queue to do something about pending SRU nominations (bug 833706): POSTPONED
[dholbach] get feedback on sponsorship process (blog / mailing list): DONE
[dholbach] look at doubling up/mentoring for new patch pilots: DONE
[bdrung] fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-dev-tools/+bug/764763: DONE

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Work Items

Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.