Hi, On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:29 PM Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > > [The ordinary membership of the ubuntu-archive team is handled internally by > the archive team, and directly by the launchpad team admins; Cc:ing TB for > awareness, but they can be dropped from Cc: going forward, modulo the > separate discussion point Seb brings up.] > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:29:14PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Hi ~ubuntu-archive admins & techboard, > > > I would like to apply for ~ubuntu-archive team membership. Initially > > scoped to exclusively working on & reviewing existing kernel related > > packages. Many tasks to publish regular kernel updates require > > privileges above of ~ubuntu-core-dev since binary packages are renamed > > with every upload and signing is required to be performed. > > > I am well versed in binary package reviews, adding / removing > > packages, submitting / reviewing / signing signed artefacts. I > > understand and use most archive reports, and have contributed fixes to > > them in the past. I will not exercise the ~ubuntu-archive powers on > > any request that I myself generate. I shouldn't need any ssh access > > either. > > Is this request in response to a perceived lack of throughput on kernel > handling? A desire to move handling of the kernels to someone within the > Kernel Team other than Andy, to free him up for other work? Is this > request backed by the Kernel Team as a whole?
The broad answer to all of the above is yes. > > Note that there are other existing AA+SRU team members who are trained up on > handling of kernel updates (Łukasz and myself). Whilst true, I believe there have been further changes that may not be straight forward anymore. I'll follow up on that with a smaller audience. > I don't know about Łukasz, > but I have had zero requests for me to handle kernel updates for probably at > least a year; they seem to all get handled on UK time before my start of > work. So if there is a need to speed up handling of kernel updates, I'd > like to understand first why the available resources are not being leveraged > for this before adding more people to a privileged team. > > Also, I am generally opposed to giving people privileged team access on the > basis that they only intend to use the access for a limited subset of that > team's responsibilities, without a clear plan to also train that person up > to handle all of the tasks. > I'm happy to train to handle all the tasks of both AA & ~canonical-signing & SRU. > None of this precludes you being made a member of the team, I just want us > to be clear about rationale and the parameters under which such a thing > should happen. > Ack. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
