Debian 9 freeze policy for pkg-mate Git repositories

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi all,

from today on, uploads to Debian unstable must be uploads that are  
very likely to be accepted by the Debian release team. Migrations from  
Debian unstable to testing (aka stretch) have to be unblocked by the  
release team, so every package change will be reviewed by a member of  
the Debian release team.

For the pkg-mate team, this means:

   * master branches of Git repositories under pkg-mate may
     not be touch by anyone without ACK from an uploading DD

     - any change to any of the master branches requires an
       open bug on the Debian BTS
     - only changes are acceptable that fix bugs of
       severity "important"
     - the "changes" I am talking about are mostly patches
       from upstream fixing some brokenness
     - packaging changes are totally unacceptible during
       freeze, except for a very very good reason (discussion
       on Debian BTS first, before committing / pushing)

   * Ubuntu development for Ubuntu zesty continues on the
     ubuntu/zesty branch, Martin Wimpress is in charge of those


   * the changes from the ubuntu/zesty branches will be merged
     into the master branches after the release of Debian 9

   * saying the above, Debian 9 will ship MATE 1.16

Thanks to all contributors in retrospective and advance. Let's make  
Debian MATE 9 cool!!!

light+love,
Mike


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