reapplying for SRU developer

[Dan Streetman]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Brian Murray <brian at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.

sounds good, I updated the DMB agenda to show I'll reapply at the Oct
23 mtg.  Thanks!

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> Brian Murray