reapplying for SRU developer

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 01:17:02PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:25:45PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Dan Streetman
> >> > <dan.streetman at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi, I'm reapplying for SRU developer at the Oct 9 mtg.  Talk to you then.
> >> >
> >> > Dan, I don't think we will have quorum for a meeting on October 9
> >> > because of the holiday in the US and Canada.
> >> >
> >> > We'll let you know when we re-schedule.
> >>
> >> how about applying via email instead.
> >
> > These tend to drag on, it be best just to wait until the 23rd of
> > October.
> 
> unless the emails drag on for 2 weeks, email will be fine with me.  I
> suspect it won't drag on since i've already been through the
> application process, and you likely already have your mind made up
> currently, but I guess we'll see.
> 
> >
> >> As I've already applied before, does anyone have any new questions for
> >> me?
> >
> > Could you talk about what has changed, what work you've done since your
> > last application? I think this would be helpful regardless of whether we
> > process your application via email or IRC.
> 
> Here's the reasoning for my previous rejection:
> 
> [19:34] <bdmurray> -1 I'd like to see more involvement in the SRU
> process before granting you upload rights.
> [19:34] <meetingology> -1 I'd like to see more involvement in the SRU
> process before granting you upload rights. received from bdmurray
> [19:34] <micahg> +0 , while the quality of work is good so far, it's a
> bit sporadic, also, I applaud your desire to sponsor uploads, but I
> don't feel that in and of itself is a reason to grant upload rights, I
> look forward to seeing you back soon with more SRUs completed when we
> can hopefully grant you SRU upload permissions
> [19:34] <meetingology> +0 , while the quality of work is good so far,
> it's a bit sporadic, also, I applaud your desire to sponsor uploads,
> but I don't feel that in and of itself is a reason to grant upload
> rights, I look forward to seeing you back soon with more SRUs
> completed when we can hopefully grant you SRU upload permissions
> received from micahg
> [19:34] <bdmurray> Perhaps one way to do that is looking at some
> things in the SRU queue and then getting an SRU team member
> endorsement.
> [19:36] <sil2100> +0, all good skill-wise but I also think it's a bit
> too soon, certainly a passing vote after a short while of more uploads
> + endorsements
> [19:36] <meetingology> +0, all good skill-wise but I also think it's a
> bit too soon, certainly a passing vote after a short while of more
> uploads + endorsements received from sil2100
> [19:36] <ddstreet> bdmurray micahg sil2100 sounds good, i'm happy to
> reapply after adding some more sponsored sru uploads...you guys don't
> mind me bugging you to sponsor my uploads right? ;-)
> [19:37] <sil2100> ddstreet: not at all! It would be a pleasure - I'd
> say keep up on uploading through sponsors and we'd gladly review you
> again in a month or so
> 
> 
> so you all wanted to see more 'quantity' from me.  These are the SRUs
> I've added since then:
> 
> 2017-09-19 15:03Brian MurrayDan Streetmaninitramfs-tools0.103ubuntu4.8trusty
> 2017-09-20 13:30ChristianEhrhardtDan Streetmanvlan1.9-3.2ubuntu2.17.04.3zesty
> 2017-09-20 13:30ChristianEhrhardtDan Streetmanvlan1.9-3.2ubuntu1.16.04.4xenial
> 2017-09-20 13:30ChristianEhrhardtDan Streetmanvlan1.9-3ubuntu10.5trusty
> 2017-09-20 13:30ChristianEhrhardtDan Streetmanvlan1.9-3.2ubuntu5artful

I consider the vlan uploads as one SRU because it is the same change
being uploaded to different releases and the same bug(s) being fixed
with all of the uploads.

> as well as being present in the Ubuntu Server IRC meeting to provide
> SRU status from the STS team (covering for Eric while he was out), and
> pestering several of you to help with some of our team's SRUs that
> needed reviewing/sponsoring; I also have another initramfs SRU that's
> waiting for the last SRU before I can submit it, and a few others
> coming as well.
> 
> If that is enough for you, great, but if this is not enough 'quantity'
> for your approval, and since the 'significant and sustained'
> contributions is obviously completely subjective, what quantity of
> SRUs would you like to see before I reapply again?

I don't have a great answer for this but don't feel like the two you've
provided is enough yet. You say that you have a "few others coming as
well" if those are in fact separate SRUs then I think we'd be in a good
spot to review your application after that.

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Brian Murray