Establishing Lubuntu Developers

[Robie Basak]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:00:19PM -0600, Simon Quigley wrote:
> It's not really a procedural shortcoming which prompted us to go for a
> delegation process, it's more specific to Lubuntu Developers knowing
> Lubuntu's infrastructure better. Specifically, Lubuntu has our own
> Phabricator instance[1] where we do code reviews[2] and task
> management[3] for the project, as well as code hosting[4] for the
> packages we maintain. This is different from how Ubuntu processes are,
> and while I fully trust the DMB to be able to evaluate the packaging
> ability of a prospective Lubuntu Developer, code review and knowledge of
> a candidate's ability to collaborate with other packagers on the
> infrastructure we have set up is important as well.

That makes sense. Thanks!

> This does bring up an important, wider point. If Ubuntu Core Developers
> are expected to be collectively responsible for the packages that are
> maintained by these subteams with different pieces of infrastructure, it
> can be difficult sometimes to navigate the different workflows. We saw a
> specific example of this in Kubuntu when Iain Lane expressed concerns
> with the KDE autopkgtests. The solution involves fixing Kubuntu's
> tooling to apply it to all packages, which are kept in our Git
> repositories, so while Iain may have the upload access to do it (not
> saying he would without talking to Kubuntu Developers), he wouldn't be
> able to do it without stepping on toes unless he was familiar with the
> processes. I don't know of an easy solution to these issues, but they're
> worth considering.

I agree. I think this is a natural consequence of different teams having
different workflows, but that is of overall benefit so that different
teams can adjust to their upstreams' workflows.

I favour thoughtfulness and active communication to pre-empt stepping on
others' toes as much as possible, and look for this when reviewing
applications.

Robie
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