MOTU Application

[Andrew Mitchell]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:30:44PM -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:
> 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


I'm happy to support Mathias' application with a +1, having met him &
also having seen his work on gutsy over the last few months. Seeing the
inclusion of apparmor has been great, and I know that Mathias has done a
great deal of work on the server packages in both main & universe, and
that there are many in universe that will get attention & care.

Thanks,
Andrew
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