Please follow that process, and after the FFe is granted, subscribe ubuntu-sponsors again.
Regarding how you are providing the package to be sponsored, I personally would prefer a git branch against pkg/ubuntu/devel. For these cases where we go ahead of debian, what I would do is have the first commit on top of pkg/ubuntu/devel be the new upstream version, and then whatever changes are needed in the packaging to get that built for noble.
This now needs a feature freeze exception, as described in https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/FreezeExcep tionProcess.
Please follow that process, and after the FFe is granted, subscribe ubuntu-sponsors again.
Regarding how you are providing the package to be sponsored, I personally would prefer a git branch against pkg/ubuntu/devel. For these cases where we go ahead of debian, what I would do is have the first commit on top of pkg/ubuntu/devel be the new upstream version, and then whatever changes are needed in the packaging to get that built for noble.