On Monday, May 16, 2011 01:52:53 PM Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Hi Iain! > > On 15/05/11 07:45 PM, Iain Lane wrote: > > We had a [couple][0] of [sessions][1] this week about ways we can > > involve new > > developers (I'm using developer here to mean what you might incorrectly > > call a > > packager. Think ~ubuntu-dev) and find interesting things for them to do. > > After attending some of those sessions, I am certainly motivated to take > up some MOTU work again. Not that I wasn't interested before, but since > the archive re-org (which also seems stalled at the moment) it seems > that many people started to think that MOTU was less important than before. > > I told a colleague that he should aim to be a MOTU and he asked what the > point is, since "MOTU is going away anyway". For some reason there are a > bunch of people that think that MOTU is obsolete or that it doesn't > exist anymore, it would probably be a good idea to try to fix that :) > > I like the sponsoring stuff that's been planned at UDS and also > happening during the last cycle and I'll spend some time getting > involved with that, thanks for the initiative, it won't go unappreciated!
There was, for awhile, a plan to do away with MOTU as part of archive reorganiztation, but that hasn't been the plan for a year now, so we need to get the word out. It's not random that people think this, but it is obsolete information. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
