Hi TB, The Developer Membership Board (DMB) has developed a proposal to allow for the granting of per-package upload rights to individuals without the (currently implicit) granting of Ubuntu membership. The intention is to lower the barrier to entry as we would no longer need to assess against the "significant and sustained contribution" threshold, which is commonly understood to mean six months of active participation in the Ubuntu community. We'll be able, for example, to give greater weight to upstream contributions or to participation in other distributions (essentially, to concentrate on technical skill).
We don't propose to change any existing memberships, nor to alter MOTU or
core-dev in any way.
The general way this works is as follows (some exceptions come after).
Individuals, when they apply to the DMB for packageset or PPU rights, will be
considered separately for their upload access and for Ubuntu membership (the
latter being optional, and usually not explicitly requested). There will be
some necessary changes to team structure:
- Create an "~ubuntu-uploaders" team which is a member of bug control and
similar teams. Direct members are ~ubuntu-dev, uploaders without membership
and non-membership (see later) packageset teams.
- Create an "~ubuntu-developer-members" team to be a member of any membership
related teams (ubuntumembers, ...). Direct members are members who were
granted membership by the DMB and ~ubuntu-dev.
- ~ubuntu-dev is for PPU who also have membership, and membership (again, see
later) most packageset teams. As now, it's the team which will be polled to
elections for development governance bodies (DMB & TB).
Since some packages have a greater impact on Ubuntu users than others, we would
like to keep the membership requirement in certain cases (albeit retaining the
discretion to waive it in exceptional cases; this needn't create onerous
difficulties on the part of applicants as such membership considerations will
in most cases be implicit anyway). These are:
- Flavor packagesets: since these operate at the project level, we feel it's
appropriate for these developers to have project membership. For the
avoidance of doubt, we take flavors to include Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu
Server here.
- "Core" packages: since these have a large impact on every Ubuntu user, we
require uploaders to demonstrate their commitment to the project by
qualifying for Ubuntu membership. "Core" in this context means the
packagesets core, desktop-core, xorg, XXX precise list TBD; any packagesets
which contain packages that intersect with the above; and PPU for any
package contained in the above.
We recognise that the second point above about core packages could be confusing
for applicants as it creates two categories of package with differing
requirements. To help with this, we will maintain a canonical list of such
packagesets and ensure it is appropriately documented. It also implies that we
will need to decide at packageset creation time whether a package should
require membership or not.
We'd like the TB to discuss this proposal, to suggest any amendments you feel
are necessary and to concur with its implementation. If you add it to the
agenda of one of your meetings (probably a decent idea), please let the DMB
know so that we can show up to answer questions and consider amendments.
Otherwise we are fine to deal with it over email.
Thanks, on behalf of the DMB,
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Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
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