On Monday, July 22, 2013 04:15:55 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Iain, > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:07:01PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > > 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). > > While I understand the point of wanting to be able to grant PPU rights to > developers who have not yet demonstrated the "sustained contribution" > required for Ubuntu membership, the Ubuntu membership is also a proxy that > ensures every Ubuntu uploader has signed the Code of Conduct. Do you intend > to enforce this requirement for non-member uploaders? > > Cheers,
Yes. We do. Scott K -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
