MOTU application Alexandre Ghiti

[Thomas Ward]

This is a -1 from me.

Reasoning is as follows:

(1) From questions asked in the channel, it's clear you do NOT have 
working knowledge of the process for merges, which is critical for any 
kind of upload rights - MOTU or CoreDev or otherwise.  This is a 
critical part of development and new package development, which is 
knowledge that based on your responses you do not have.

(2) Recurring problems of typos and missing information in changelogs.  
Another critical thing is this knowledge, if typos keep showing up in 
your code that gets sponsored/released, and you fail to put proper bug 
references in changelogs, bugs won't get closed properly and you'll be 
stuck redoing your work because of typos.  If you don't have a proper 
way to detect these other than asking another dev to take a look, then 
you should not have unrestricted upload rights and should continue to 
work with sponsors.

(3) Insufficient understanding of the SRU process is also evident in the 
questions asked.  You need to look more into how SRUs work, maybe work 
on more of them with a sponsor before requesting upload privileges to do 
such tasks without monitoring.

(4) This is less of an issue, but is still extremely critical: you 
stated some strings where things would be in multiple releases for 
version strings that are **incorrect**.  For the most part, the Ubuntu 
Developers more or less follow the Security Team's versioning guidelines 
- see 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdatePreparation#Update_the_packaging 
where an example version table exists - and incorrect version strings 
can result in things being broken in the *future* when you try and apply 
version strings with the examples you provided and then need to do 
another package update specific for one Ubuntu release but *not* all of 
the ones with conflicting strings.  This is something you need to always 
be aware of and it's clear you do not know this information, which is 
one *major* requisite for any kind of packaging or bug work.

I strongly advise you to work with sponsors on any patches or uploads 
you need to do for the foreseeable future (at the very least, throughout 
next dev cycle), because you do not have the knowledge you need to do 
uploading work without other devs or sponsors correcting your mistakes 
before upload.  You also don't show requisite knowledge of critical dev 
processes either, which sponsors and devs can help teach you.



Thomas

DMB Member

On 10/6/22 08:42, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 04:09:45PM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:38 PM Alexandre Ghiti
>> <alexandre.ghiti at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to announce my application for MOTU, you'll find the full
>>> application on the wiki:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlexandreGhiti/MOTUDeveloperApplication
>> In today's meeting we voted on this application but were unfortunately
>> unable to reach a conclusion. Please could the absent DMB members look
>> at the meeting logs and vote by email? So far we're at 2 -1s and 2 +0s.
>>
>> Logs here:
>> https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2022/10/03/%23ubuntu-meeting.html
> Specifically Brian, Thomas and Łukasz need to vote please.
>