- ltrace: already uploaded; marked MP as Merged
- xorg-server “tearfree”: this has been in the queue for a while and commented on by various people. The issue is that it is (good) original work that really belongs upstream rather than in a distro patch with a maintenance burden. Previous pilots have tried to help in this direction, but ultimately it doesn’t really belong in the queue since there is no action to take in Ubuntu. I marked the MP as “Work in progress” with an explanation and instructions on how to put it back in the queue again if the submitter needs.
- liblxc-dev LXC_DEVEL=1: again this has been commented on by various pilots. @waveform kindly said he’d take another look, rather than me adding yet another cook to spoil this broth.
- lektor update for werkzeug: again this has been commented on by previous pilots. The issue I have with sponsoring this is that it doesn’t seem to be possible to reconcile the patch against the upstream it is claimed to came from. I asked for details, and queried why we aren’t taking the upstream maintenance release that includes the necessary fixes.
- onionshare update for werkzeug: I asked about appropriate testing on this. Sure, it might make dep8 tests pass, but if we’re pushing ahead with selecting backports from upstream, does it actually fix the issue such that the app works again, and what’s the plan to verify this? I left a comment.
Some observations
The werkzeug work is important, but I wonder if it stretches a little beyond the capabilities of patch piloting. Same for liblxc-dev where the bug seems to have gone into a tangent about making more significant packaging updates than a simple patch.
I also noticed that the ~ubuntu-sponsors MP slot is being taken and thus MPs are disappearing from the queue. I’ve commented about this before but there was no further discussion on this point. I think I will probably just change the bot and queue to use ~ubuntu-sponsors-reporter when I get round it to work around this issue as I suggested. In the meantime, I think MPs are still being lost from the queue.