backports lag

[duffman25]

Anyone knows why there's so much lag between the approval of backports & the actual packages hitting the archive? jdong?

[btdown]

Yes! Who is the hold up, and how can we get a hold of them? I really want to express my displeasure and i would ask that everyone else do the same. There is no reason for this to take this long.

[jdong]

James Troup (elmo), james.troup@ubuntu.com is the lag... Currently a 1-2 week lag.

My efforts to try to make him more responsive have failed.

[btdown]

Do you happen to know whom he reports to ?

Thanks

[jdong]

He is administrator of Ubuntu archives and (I believe) also a Community Council member..

In other words, high authority official.

[Tomasz]

Seriously, only *one* person responsible for the servers? My God, this is not what I expected from professionals. There surely are another one or two people who take care of the servers at the same level, aren't there? I mean, why the whole community should suffer because *one* guy isn't being responsive enough? Not trying to be ungrateful or anything, I'm actually very happy with Ubuntu, but these guys are being payed to do their job and Backports is actually an officially supported project.

EDIT: typo.

[matthew]

Yes! Who is the hold up, and how can we get a hold of them? I really want to express my displeasure and i would ask that everyone else do the same.May I recommend that when/if you do so that you do it in an exceptionally polite and friendly way? That is more likely to achieve the results you are hoping for.

"You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

[btdown]

I agree. I sent a simple/short/polite email asking him to please set aside some time to clear out the backlog of ports. I urge others to do the same.

[duffman25]

I agree. I sent a simple/short/polite email asking him to please set aside some time to clear out the backlog of ports. I urge others to do the same.

I think the best solution would be if one of the people in the backport team (jdong, for example) could have upload access to the archive, similar to the motus in the development branch. Is this asking too much?

[jdong]

(1) James today has pushed through all the backports that have been requested. I think he deserves a big thank you.

(2) I've put up on the Tech Board meeting today my request to be MOTU, a first step towards my eventual upload privs. Currently, they'd like me to do some MOTU work (i.e. prove my general packaging skills), which I agree with. So, that's the first step.

In the future, Backports may be done by Launchpad, which will eliminate the bottleneck.

For now, I think we just all need to cool down and be patient.

[duffman25]

(1) James today has pushed through all the backports that have been requested. I think he deserves a big thank you.

(2) I've put up on the Tech Board meeting today my request to be MOTU, a first step towards my eventual upload privs. Currently, they'd like me to do some MOTU work (i.e. prove my general packaging skills), which I agree with. So, that's the first step.

In the future, Backports may be done by Launchpad, which will eliminate the bottleneck.

For now, I think we just all need to cool down and be patient.

(1) Thanxs James!
(2) Great news! This is a big step for ubuntu's world dominance :)

Edit: Not all backports requested have been pushed. I'm missing gnochm.

[btdown]

Thank you James and John. Much appreciated!

[ubuntu_demon]

(1) James today has pushed through all the backports that have been requested. I think he deserves a big thank you.

(2) I've put up on the Tech Board meeting today my request to be MOTU, a first step towards my eventual upload privs. Currently, they'd like me to do some MOTU work (i.e. prove my general packaging skills), which I agree with. So, that's the first step.

In the future, Backports may be done by Launchpad, which will eliminate the bottleneck.

For now, I think we just all need to cool down and be patient.
cool!

So all the backport lag problems will be solved soon :)

[brian g]

(1) James today has pushed through all the backports that have been requested. I think he deserves a big thank you.


i'm still waiting for the ones (mainly Rhythmbox) he approved and said "done" to on the 21st to hit the repository.
:confused:

[jdong]

That\'s a separate build server issue, that I\'ve tried to resolve. The buildd admin (lamont) says that it\'ll be done soon...

[duffman25]

That\'s a separate build server issue, that I\'ve tried to resolve. The buildd admin (lamont) says that it\'ll be done soon...

I'm waiting for gnochm... It was approved long ago, any ideas?

[Kuolio]

Me too waiting for the rhythmbox 0.9.2... hope it will come soon!

[duffman25]

Me too waiting for the rhythmbox 0.9.2... hope it will come soon!

Any news on this situation?

[brian g]

That\'s a separate build server issue, that I\'ve tried to resolve. The buildd admin (lamont) says that it\'ll be done soon...what is the status of this?

[brian g]

Any news on this situation?
on the backports mailing list i was told by jdong 01/19/2006 06:00 PM "not gonna build, the way it looks."

and that was it.
pretty informative post.

so now what?