Considering component-specific work when reviewing applications (Was: MOTU Application for kirkland)

Soren Hansen soren at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 20 10:24:10 BST 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:28:27PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> As MOTUship isn't required for core-dev since some time, 

TTBOMK it was never a requirement.

> As currently the upload rights are determined by the component a
> package is in, IMHO we should look at the packages an applicant is
> interested in. 


> I see no advantage making someone a MOTU who is interested in a set of
> package which is mainly in main, just because he has the technical
> skills and the trust needed for MOTU. 

..and I don't see the disadvantage. If you're interested in 30 packages,
of which only 5 are in universe (this is a completely made up example),
becoming a MOTU (which has a significantly lower barrier of entry, IMO),
makes you able to be more productive when working on those 5 packages.
Also, now that you don't have to wait for things to go through the
universe sponsors queue, you might be more willing to work on other
packages as well.  If you tell people to apply for core-dev instead
(which I find extremely arrogant, by the way), it's going to be a lot
longer before they're able to *anything* by themselves.

> If the applicant's sponsors are ready to support the application
> because they're confident that he can work unsupervised, he should
> apply for upload rights which match his current (and future) work at
> best.

That's just silly. *Every* MOTU would be able to be more productive if
they were core-dev. I have a very hard time believing that there's a
MOTU who has never found a bug in a package in main, and would have been
able to work on it and fix it. 

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
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