On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! Sorry for the delayed response. > > On Mon, Jan 8 2024 at 12:23:56 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > after formerly (pre 2018) people often reporting issues of not having > > an LTS that could work fully well with the latest VMware we have, now > > for more than five years, done regular backports of open-vm-tools. > > But a recent misunderstanding between Steve and myself has identified > > that we missed to put this down clearly enough as a properly approved > > "special case". > > > > To be fair - In the past, AFAIK, we have not always done/needed such > > exceptions for things that go to SRU under "other safe cases" [1], > > but this case is not so much "safe" as more "a usually accepted kind > > of risk for platform enablement". And since it caused > > misunderstanding let us document this now, to avoid the same > > misunderstanding to happen again in the future. > > > > Hence I've created [2] as a wiki page documenting this case. > > I would now ask the SRU team for a review, discussion and hopefully > > eventually sign-off to acknowledge this case and add its link to the > > known special cases [3]. > > This broadly looks sensible, and open-vm-tools is a reasonable > (virtual)-HWE case.
Thanks, today I wondered about missing an answer, only to get help finding [1] and in turn finding this in my spam folder. So much for the reasons behind my extra week of delay to answer this. > I've taken the liberty of reorganising the wiki page to stick a > "Process" section up the top, and added some extra process verbiage. Thanks, any order that works better for you works for me as well. > Please take a look and check that what I've moved around and added > still makes sense and captures what you need. Yeah it is ok to focus on what matters and have most down there in "Past context" as you put it. > There's an open question there, too - at what point after (or before?) > a release do we first consider a backport of the open-vm-tools package? Yeah, I see you also added that as "Question" in the wiki. Answering here and updating it there ... In our experience we usually aimed for that to be 6 weeks (but often ended up with a bit more until we found the time). I think we can state 6 weeks in the exception, and if it takes more time to get prepared there is no harm to it. Was there anything else you needed to consider this approvable? [1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2024-January/005882.html -- Christian Ehrhardt Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
