Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2010-04-13

Chair: Emmet Hikory
Present: Cody Somerville, Søren Hansen, Richard Johnson, Michael Bienia, Colin Watson
Apologies:  Stéphane Graber

Action Review

• persia contacts Angel Abad about his application: contact attempted

no feedback received

• complete the application of Jonathan Thomas : Confirmed as

core-dev, 4 in favour, 3 deferring

• complete the application of Matt Trudel: Deferred as MOTU, 2 in

favour, 4 deferring, 1 against

Administrative Matters

Appropriate body to handle requests for new development teams

• Interested parties should engage in the active thread on the mailing list

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-April/000184.html

Interpretation of votes

The DMB determined to use the following guidelines to accept or defer candidates by a vote of 5 in favour, 1 abstaining, 1 absent:

1. Any applicant must surpass a threshold of +4 to be confirmed
2. Any positive vote adds 1 to the vote count per individual voter
3. Any negate vote subtracts 1 from the vote count per individual voter
4. Any zero vote does not affect the vote count

Ensuring transparency of applications take to email

If an application is taken to email, the tallied votes will be posted to the devel-permissions@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list

Application Process and public notification times

• Agreed that applications should continue to have a one week public

notice peiod before being heard in a meeting

• ACTION: persia to make documentation on application notice clearer

PerPackageUploader: Krzysztof Klimonda

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KrzysztofKlimonda/TransmissionPPUApplication

• Krzysztof has been maintaining transmission for a long time now,

and was approved unanimously to be able to upload directly.  Welcome!

Select a Chair for the next meeting

• Cody Somerville will chair the 27th April meeting

Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2010-04-27

Chair: Cody Somerville
Present: Søren Hansen, Richard Johnson, Michael Bienia, Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber
Apologies:

Action Review

• persia contacts Angel Abad about his application: Dropping action for Persia to contact Angel, he will hope to catch him another time time though.

• persia to make documentation on application notice clearer: Persia will work on DMB Application Process page further if people think it's still unclear. Without feedback, he'll leave it alone.
• geser to follow up with Sylvestre Ledru and arrange for the application to be added to the meeting agenda: Done.

Administrative Matters

Accept responsibility for UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• Accept responsibility for UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• LINK: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/04/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t15:26

• ACTION: Persia to update UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation to reflect DMB's responsibilities in process.

Finalise application for Leann Ogasawara

• cjwatson already granted PPU permissions to Leann but forgot to add Leann to ubuntu-dev team. This is now corrected.
• ACTION: cjwatson to create ubuntu-kernel-uploaders team owned by the DMB that will provide upload permissions to Ubuntu kernel packages.

Schedule of next meeting (held at UDS?)

• ACTION: cjwatson to schedule session at UDS for DMB meeting

PerPackageUploader: Alessio Igor Bogani

• Bogani applied for per package upload permissions for linux-rt and rt-tests.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlessioIgorBogani/linux-rtPPUApplication

• Bogani's application was denied.

• ACTION: Persia to follow up with TheMuso re: Bogani's application.

PerPackageUploader: Ara Pulido

• Pulido applied for per package upload permissions for ldtp, mago and ubuntu-qa-tools.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AraPulido/PerPackageUploadApplication

• Pulido's application was approved.

PerPackageUploader: Rodrigo Moya

• Moya applied for per package upload permissions for couchdb-glib, evolution-couchdb, libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, tomboy, and ubuntuone-client.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RodrigoMoya/PerPackageUploadApplication

• The DMB split this application into three separate applications:
  • couchdb-glib, and evolution-couchdb
  • libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, and ubuntuone-client
  • tomboy
• Moya's application for couchdb-glib, and evolution-couchdb was approved.
• Moya's application for libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, and ubuntuone-client deferred pending e-mail vote by Hansen and Graber. Application requires two votes to reach approval threshold.
• Moya's application for tomboy deferred pending e-mail vote by Hansen and Graber. Application requires one vote to reach approval threshold.

UbuntuCoreDeveloper: Brandon Holtsclaw

• Holtsclaw applied for renewal of his Ubuntu Core Developer membership.

• LINK: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrandonHoltsclaw

• Holtsclaw's application was accepted.

Select a Chair for the next meeting

• Michael Bienia will chair the 11th May meeting.