On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:59:15 +0100 Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 02:58 +0100 schrieb Stefan Potyra: >> That aside, I find it very interesting and disturbing that membership of >> otherwise voted upon boards are (as it occurs to me from this mail) >> prolonged >> by the will of one developer. Maybe you can clear up what happened? Did that >> happen on request of the community council? Or was it that tech board >> interfered here? And if either, on what basis? Or anything else I just >> didn't >> get? > >It was not the will of one developer (Martin merely pushed the buttons >in LP), but an unanimous decision by the TB and CC. Here's the details. > >Søren and Michael were going to lose their team membership in a couple >of days, the result being that we wouldn't have had quorum in the >meeting in which we processed Jonathan's application and had a >discussion with Marc (and probably skip the next one or two meetings >too, because that's how long elections take). > >We bounced the idea of elections back and forth and discussed if it >really made sense, as the Developer Membership Board is soon going to >take over developer applications completely. There is no concrete >timeline for this transition yet, so Søren and Michael said that an >extension of 3 months were the maximum they were comfortable with to >bridge the gap between now and then. > >True it was a pragmatic decision, but not by one developer, but by our >top governance bodies and it was sensibly discussed with all the pros >and cons. > >Hope that explains some missing details. > >Have a great day, > Daniel
Would you please point me to the minutes of the meetings or the archive of the discussion where this decision was taken? Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu