Upload permission for Romain Francoise for 'emacs-snapshot'

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:49:55AM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > I'm much less sure about upstream participation, where the questions get
> > harder.
> >
> > If we grant upload privileges to people who are not Ubuntu developers at
> > all, what are they expected to do with them?
> >
> > How about commit access to the branch, without upload permission?
> 
> What about having a perhaps more direct and clear sponsorship
> structure as well? I'm not entirely sure what we want to accomplish
> necessarily with per-package uploaders. It basically seems to me that
> we want to preserve the current generalists approach of MOTU and Core
> Dev while still allowing for people who know what their doing to
> easily work on specific packages, correct? Is the consensus that using
> the current sponsorship process is not "easy" for such people?
> 
> Would assigning sponsors help? Perhaps that would be a step before
> granting per-package upload rights to people who aren't existing
> developers.
> 
> What about Ubuntu Universe Contributors wanting to maintain Universe
> packages? They've shown contribution to Ubuntu (enough to grant Ubuntu
> Membership) but they're not yet in ~ubuntu-dev. Could a
> sponsorship-until-proven approach work there as well?
> 
> Overall I'm much more comfortable with somebody committing to a branch
> than I am with them uploading directly.

I'm concerned that this concrete request from a developer may have been lost
in the discussion about more general questions which this raised.

For my part, I think it's completely appropriate to grant Romain access to
upload these packages to universe rather than a PPA.

Mark, Scott?

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 - mdz