> You can find the new documentation here[3]:
> https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/
I read all of this and as a person with plenty of Ubuntu stale
security update experience, reading the SRU process was easy and
enlightening. Thanks for writing this!
There are a bunch of incomplete sections and todo type of items and
comments in brackets ([]), but for a draft, everything looked good.
One thing I'd like to see more is links to past exemplary SRU uploads.
As a person doing packaging, it is always nice to be able to read the
exact changelog entries and bug report contents and track the package
statuses to learn how and when things happened in detail and to learn
from curated examples.
As a side note, the page about Package-specific notes links to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases,
but I don't see anything about MySQL or MariaDB there. In reality we
have been doing MySQL and MariaDB stable updates and security updates
for years. I tried to search for the microrelease approvals from old
mailing list archives, but I didn't find them - I am however pretty
confident that they exist. MariaDB also a special mention in the
security release process docs:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/PublicationNotes#Sponsoring_MariaDB_Security_Updates.
Nice to see documentation being worked on! For the "inner circle" the
process is probably pretty clear, but to attract new contributors,
having clear documentation is foundational.
I also have some suggestions on how to ensure there are no surprising
changes in the uploads, but I will write a technical suggestion about
that later. I also assume this doc is now being written to document
current status, and perhaps not the forum for discussing process
changes.
- Otto
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