Core dev requirement for developer membership board seats?

[Micah Gersten]

On January 17, 2020 8:38:00 AM CST, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:18:51AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
>> The SRU process is most certainly not 'narrow' ;-)  It covers the
>vast
>> majority of what coredevs need to know, at least IMHO.
>
>I disagree.
>
>Core devs and MOTUs need (at least) to be able to do package merges,
>understand[1] the development release cycle, freeze milestones and
>exception processes, proposed migration and transitions, and the
>main/universe split and how it affects dependencies. Core devs
>additionally need to understand[1] seed handling and MIRs.
>
>SRU developers don't need to know anything about those areas, nor even
>know that they exist. When considering an SRU developer application, I
>don't consider any of these areas. In fact that was the point of
>creating the SRU developer team: to allow developers to make progress
>_without_ having to learn or demostrate the wider stuff.
>
>[1] I don't necessarily expect detailed direct experience in all of
>these, but I do expect to see direct and deep experience of at least
>some of them and a general understanding of most of them.

+1 to this assessment