MOTU application for jackson doak

[Jackson Doak]

> That is good, but I was hoping that you would then cherry-pick these
patches into a proposed package for Ubuntu.
A bzr branch with the fix and a branch with the 3.15 release (bugfixes
only) have been made. I'm waiting on a semi-related theme issue.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:08:17AM +1100, Jackson Doak wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I would like to apply (again) for MOTU, as well as the xubuntu and
> > ubuntu-gnome (or desktop-extra if that's the better one) packagesets, at
> > the next 19UTC meeting. My wiki page for this is at
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Noskcaj#MOTU . I apologise for anything
> outdated on
> > the page, as it is mostly just for tracking testimonials.
>
> OK. Here I am. I just did some sponsoring including some packages for
> you.
>
> Scott K was asking you to take more initiative in fixing the bug I
> highlighted (bug #1261608). I note you managed to cause some patches to
> be written upstream. That is good, but I was hoping that you would then
> cherry-pick these patches into a proposed package for Ubuntu. Then it
> seems like there are theme problems. I don't expect you to know exactly
> what to do about these (I wouldn't), but I would hope that you would try
> to engage the developer(s) of the Ubuntu theme to seek a solution.
>
> It seems that you don't fully appeciate that we were trying to press you
> to not leave problems unresolved. If all else fails, removing packages
> from -proposed is an option.
>
> Having said that, the work that I've sponsored recently was of good
> quality and I am pleased that you are a consistent contributor,
> especially to our flavours.
>
> I vote +1 but I want you to pay more attention to the points I raise
> above. It is okay to make mistakes, but we need to own them and work,
> with others if necessary, to get them resolved.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
> Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
> Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
>
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