MOTU Application

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Stefan,

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:32:06PM +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote:

> looking at your packages, most of these are in main. So I'm
> interested: Do you have any special goals for universe planned?

I plan to help with review and sponsoring of server related packages. As
I have a general interest in server related packages, I'll help
new team members to package softwares that could increase the number of
features for Ubuntu Server.

There are a couple of packages in universe (such as tomcat, drupal or
libpam-krb5) that should be looked after as they are used by
ubuntu-server users. I'd like to improve their quality by fixing bugs or
mentoring potential contributors. 

> Since you're a member of the ubuntu-server team, I've got the following 
> question: Quite a lot of packages, that are server related (e.g. wordpress, 
> python-django etc.) are in universe. Also, we once founded a security team 
> for universe, there isn't too much activity there which means that security 
> bugs don't get triaged/fixed. What do you think should be done to improve 
> this situation? What could you do to help out?

A lot of ubuntu-server users are using packages from universe. So I'd like to
contribute to the security tracking of server related packages. First a
small list of server related packages should be established.  Second,
ubuntu-server users are using the packages to build professional
platforms and services (I know that one of the regular ubuntu-server
contributor runs a drupal based company). I think it could be worth
asking these regular users to be part of the security process. Usually
they are aware of upstream security vulnerabilities and could notify the
security team members. They can also help identify which patches should
be applied and may even be involved in packaging the security updates.
There are different points in the process where they could be involved
and I'd like to help them participating in it. I'd also be directly
involved in the packaging effort to release security updates for
server-related packages.

--
Mathias
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