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

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Heya,

On 20 January 2015 at 20:23, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> So there is no process when a team that owns a package is abandoned entirely
> and none of its members are responsive?
>

Your assertion is false.

The Firefox & Thunderbird packages in the Ubuntu Archive are up to
date (in _all_ releases, which is not the usual state of affairs in
Ubuntu) and uploaders of those packages in the Ubuntu Archive are
responsive as far as I can tell.

Random cruft elsewhere on launchpad is another matter, however
official or unofficial it sounds.

Given that Firefox/Thunderbird latest stable releases are available to
all Ubuntu users by default, I doubt that there is any need or desire
for daily PPAs.

If you wish to provide one, it's easier to create a new team / ppa
with daily builds and advertise it. People who are after bleeding
edge, switch fast.

Regards,

Dimitri.



> 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
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Regards,

Dimitri.