MOTU application for jackson doak

[Jackson Doak]

Has there been any activity with this while i've been gone?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > 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 outdated on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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