Team membership changes

[Tim Gardner]

On 04/08/2014 08:54 AM, Iain Lane wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:10:33AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 04/06/2014 01:24 PM, Iain Lane wrote:
>> […]
>>> The application procedure
>>>
>>>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/UploadRights#Screening_Process
>>>
>>> says that candidates should be considered at an IRC meeting and then
>>> voted on in that meeting, with the result being sent to the DMB and the
>>> kernel team. I can't find any evidence of this. Can you point us to
>>> where the application was considered, please?
>> […]
>> Hmm, this was likely an oversight on my part. The real goal was to
>> allow Kamal the ability to set Launchpad nominations for releases,
>> though granting him upload rights did not do what I expected.
>
> I think the permissions are linked, yeah.
>
>> In a practical sense the kernel team doesn't require per-package
>> upload rights since we use a team de-virtualized PPA for all kernel
>> packages. One must be a member of the Canonical kernel team in order
>> to upload. Packages are then copied from this PPA directly to the
>> archive by a core-dev after having passed a battery of SRU testing,
>> thereby adhering to the spirit of per package upload rights.
>
> Don't understand why you're saying core-dev here; the kernel uploaders
> team should grant the necessary permissions to be able to execute the
> copying. Do you mean to say that you do not need/want this team any
> more (if it's not useful)?
>
> FWIW, Copying seems fine assuming the person doing that is reviewing as
> appropriate.
>

Given the current kernel work flow, upload rights for packages managed 
by the kernel team are not useful. However, there are packages uploaded 
by community members for which this Launchpad team _is_ still useful, so 
I think we should just leave well enough alone.

As for copying, a full review is conducted typically by an archive admin 
such as Adam Conrad.

>>
>> Mea culpa. What action would you like me to take ? I have complete
>> faith in Kamal. He is, after all, a Debian developer as well as an
>> upstream stable kernel maintainer.
>
> Easiest way would be to have him do a proper application, if you want to
> keep the team. If it's as you say, then it hould be easy to get the
> required number of +1s. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>

Kamal's application to be reviewed during the next Kernel team IRC 
meeting May 15: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2014-April/041443.html

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com