Advanced contributor tasks

These tasks assume that you are already familiar with the more fundamental tasks such as bug fixing and patching. In this section, you will find guides for the more advanced tasks that will support your application for MOTU, Core Dev, etc.

Checks and investigations

• Check publication history
• Checking reverse dependencies

Sponsorship and uploading

See the Sponsorship article series for instructions on how seek sponsorship as well as review and sponsor uploads and syncs.

• Handle git-ubuntu contributions
• Upload with rich history
• Review a merge proposal
• Sponsor an upload
• Sponsor a sync

Proposed migration

Guidance on investigating and resolving issues that block automatic migration from the -proposed to the -release pocket:

• Resolve a migration issue

See the Proposed migration series of articles for an explanation of the process, as well as a description of common blocking issues.

Seed management

Content in staging

+1 Maintenance

The +1 Maintenance program coordinates work towards ensuring the health of the overall Archive for the next release of Ubuntu.

• +1 Maintenance report template

Requests

• Request a package removal
• Request a freeze exception

Main Inclusion

The Main Inclusion Review (MIR) process ensures that both reporters and reviewers can successfully handle main inclusion requests. This improves the long-term maintainability of the packages in main.

• MIR bug request template
• Use MIR templates