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

[Stéphane Graber]

If the team owned the package in the archive (as in, the team had PPU),
sure because the team would be owned by the DMB in this case.

But in the case of those two teams, all they own are PPAs and since PPAs
are a Launchpad feature completely separate from the Ubuntu archive, we
have no control over that.

I'd recommend you try to take this up directly with the owner and
administrators of those two teams and if they've indeed been
unresponsive for a long period of time, maybe remind them of the
"stepping down gracefully" part of the Ubuntu CoC which they signed.

In the even that you get no response whatsoever, then, the right
escalation body would I think be the CC which because those teams are
called ~ubuntu-* should be able to get a Launchpad administrator
to change their ownership to someone who's actually around.


But seeing how I see a few team administrators in both teams who I know
for a fact are still around and active (though not necessarily with
firefox), I very much doubt you'd have to resort to an escalation
through the CC.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:23:15PM -0800, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> 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

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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