Re: Upstream access to Ubuntu package bugs

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:35:26AM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis 
> wrote:
> ...
> >     - We could offer a per-package official bug contact, which would
> >       still be official Ubuntu QA, but only for a specific package.
>
> I was going to suggest something like this. Tom is currently working on
> 'structual subscriptions', which will allow you to subscribe to
> different objects, for example projects and packages. When that is 
> done, we can convert the existing package bug contacts to 
> subscriptions, and then we can use package bug contacts to give 
> permission for working on bugs for a specific package.

If anyone will be able to subscribe to a package, how would that be 
useful for granting permissions?

I don't think there's a connection between subscriptions and 
permissions (except that watching the former may eventually give 
maintainers an idea of who deserves the latter). Someone may have good 
reasons for being able to alter bug reports on a particular package 
while not being subscribed, and conversely someone may have good 
reasons for being subscribed to a package while not having permissions 
to alter its bugs.

> ...
> >     - We could offer ways of better tracking the upstream task for
> >       the Ubuntu context. This requires some brainstorming, but maybe
> >       for triage purposes we could say "Ubuntu task follows upstream".

This is "Handle a distribution being its own upstream for a package" 
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/76416>.

I've also reported Martin Pitt's suggestion about combining upstream 
and package bug listings. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/138545>

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/

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