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[Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Robert,

I'm +1 on this change. Although I do think that the ability to
force-merge is good, as sometimes that's necessary to continue
development (or fix problems with the infrastructure), things like this
should not be done without coordination with the landing team.

We're all aware of the deadlines that developers are facing, but it
should be the landers/devs responsibility to see their packages migrate
to the end. That was the original idea behind Didier's manual merging of
silos. And this is all for the best: to get xenial in better shape and
making it worthy as the future possible base for Ubuntu Touch.

Cheers,

W dniu 04.11.2015 o 15:00, Robert Park pisze:
> I've noticed recently that some people are force merging silos in
> order to ignore problems with xenial-proposed migration while
> continuing development in vivid.
> 
> This is a Very Bad Thing as it causes xenial to rot, without anybody
> paying attention or fixing it.
> 
> I've discussed the issue with Steve, and we've decided to remove the
> ability for landers to force merge their own silos (only trainguards
> will be able to do this from now on). The force merge is largely just
> a holdover from the days before automatic merging was implemented, so
> this shouldn't really be a problem for anybody in practise.
> 
> I'll probably roll out the change tomorrow, so if you feel this is a
> grievous mistake you have 24 hours to convince us otherwise.
> 


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