On 1/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jani Monoses</b> <<a href="mailto:jani.monoses@gmail.com">jani.monoses@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> To become a MOTU you need to be an Ubuntu member first, which means<br>> you'll have to give a sustained and significant contribution to Ubuntu.<br>> Sending patched to the MOTU is a good way of making such a<br>
> contribution :)<br>><br><br>It looks like for DDs who can only afford to spend some time on a<br>limited amount of packages, the existing process of becoming a member</blockquote><div><br>That's my situation, basically. I don't have much free time to spend on off-work activities, and then again I'd like to give something back to Ubuntu. As much as I'd love to spend more time working on opensource projects, these days my time resources are really limited (hopefully that'll change some day :>)
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">could be a barrier. Can we call the maintenance of debian packages a<br>sustained and significant contribution to Ubuntu? It is definitely a
<br>contribution even if indirect.<br></blockquote><div> And duplication of that effort on the Ubuntu side is not the best distribution of resources, I'd say.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It would be nice to be able to lessen the burden on both the MOTUs and<br>upstream packagers with the help of DDs who are willing to maintain and<br>upload their packages in Ubuntu, but I am not sure how this fits in with
<br>our requirements amongst which are such elements as signing of a CoC,<br>much enthusiasm and an almost fanatical devotion to the sabdfl.<br></blockquote><div>I don't mind signing the CoC and being enthusiastic (I do think that Ubuntu is the best desktop distro to date) but I think I'd fail the fanatical devotion part :D
<br><br>marek<br><br></div></div>