followup from UDS

[Andrew Mitchell]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 21:06 -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 05:12 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> > In the IRC meeting yesterday, we mainly followed up from UDS:
> > 
> > - Should we change our process so we review apps in email, and vote on
> > the tickets?
> > 
> > - Should we switch to a monthly IRC meeting instead of twice a month?
> > The IRC meetings would be for "exceptional" things, rather than the
> > usual business of app review and voting. The last Tuesday of the month
> > was suggested as a time that's easy to remember, but also not common (we
> > had a conflict on the first Tuesday of the month).
> 
> Any thoughts on this? I've moved the calendar entry to the last Tuesday,
> and moved it an hour later because of a conflict with the Kernel Team
> meeting.
> 
I may not be able to attend this - I'm moving house this weekend, and it
will depend on how long it takes to get DSL reconnected. This & other
things has been taking away some of my spare time lately.

> > - How to recruit new members? I did a little digging after the meeting
> > for details, and our charter says we do this through the CC (which is
> > pretty much the conclusion we came to in the meeting, so it's nice to
> > have the confirmation):
> > 
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostReleaseApps/Process#Application%20Review%20Board%20Charter
> 
> The general feedback is that it's unusual to have the CC appointing new
> members to teams (it's not what they do). So, suggested that we should
> talk through our criteria and process for recruiting new members (maybe
> based on what other teams are doing, and maybe pulling in some other
> Ubuntu community members to the discussion), and then run the revised
> process by the TB/CC for a sanity check.
> 
> Allison
> 
I think this is meant to be an elected board, so I'm not sure if we get
to set the criteria for election & then ask the TB to set up a poll.
Either way, it should probably be done in the same manner as DMB
elections or similar teams.

Andrew