Request for PPU to Firefox and Membership on Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Build Team and Mozilla Team

[Benjamin Kerensa]

So there is no process when a team that owns a package is abandoned
entirely and none of its members are responsive?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am writing to request PPU to Firefox and Membership on Ubuntu Mozilla
> > Daily Build Team and Mozilla Team. I have been a contributor
> > to Ubuntu for some years and am currently and Ubuntu Contributing
> > Developer. Although most of my contributions these days
> > are upstream in Firefox as a member of the Firefox Release Management
> Team
> > and release owner for Firefox ESR and Nightly
> > I am very concerned about the current state of Firefox Nightly builds
> which
> > are not being frequently and consistently updated.
> >
> > Myself and another Mozilla contributor (also a Ubuntu Core Dev) have
> > several times tried to get things transitioned to us but the current
> > maintainer is very unresponsive due to his new full time role with
> > Canonical. We also have Ubuntu users pretty regularly complaining about
> the
> > inconsistent updating of Firefox Nightly in Ubuntu through our support
> > channels and on social media which reflects poorly on both Mozilla and
> > Ubuntu.
> >
> > That being said as a upstream contributor who already plays an integral
> > role in releasing Firefox to downstream (Ubuntu) and our users
> > and with the packaging experience I have I am asking for these
> memberships
> > and PPU so that myself and that other contributor
> > can step in and tag team Firefox in Ubuntu and make the experience better
> > for the users.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Benjamin Kerensa
>
> Hi,
>
> The DMB has no control over ~ubuntu-mozilla-daily or ~ubuntu-mozilla so
> you'll have to directly deal with the current team owners and
> administrators as those aren't official Ubuntu teams
> as managed by the CC, TB or DMB (nor should they).
>
> As for the PPU application, you'll have to prepare a wiki page for it
> and send us the link to the list, then add yourself to the agenda of one
> of our meetings (note that we need at least a week notice).
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
>



-- 
Benjamin Kerensa
http://benjaminkerensa.com
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