MOTU Application for kirkland [Was Re: Universe Contributors application for Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)]

[Soren Hansen]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:19:49PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
>> For that reason, I keep track of the packages I touch and bugs I fix,
>> as best I can, in my wiki page: *
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DustinKirkland
> This page shows a total of 33 bugs fixed, of which 6 packages (ltp,
> asterisk, bip, mythtv, ecryptfs-utils, mythtv-status) were in universe
> at the time of the upload.  While 6 is surely better than 2, it's
> still a small number when compared with other applicants.

I've ranted about this before, and I still fail to see the importance of
this. For the purpose of this discussion, I think the component to which
a package belongs is completely and utterly arbitrary. Packages get
moved from main to universe and vice versa all the time.  At least my
own interest in a package is not determined by whether it's in main or
universe (multiverse is a slightly different discussion :) ). It just so
happens that most of the packages I care about are in main. If they got
demoted to universe, I doubt I'd automatically lose interest in them.

If someone cares about Ubuntu as a whole, I don't think that should
count against them in their application to become a MOTU. Dustin has
clearly shown interest in working on stuff that's in universe, and he's
proven himself technically.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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