Upload permission for Romain Francoise for 'emacs-snapshot'

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I'd like to ask you to grant Romain upload access for the
> 'emacs-snapshot' package.
>
> He has been the former emacs maintainer in debian, and now provides
> up-to-date builds (updated about weekly) of the current emacs trunk at
> http://emacs.orebokech.com/ for debian systems. He also uploads it to
> the ubuntu-elisp ppa at http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive
>
> Granting him upload access to ubuntu for this package would eliminate
> sync delays to intrepid.
>
> His Launchpad account is https://edge.launchpad.net/~rfrancoise, his GPG
> key (note he is also a DD) is associated there.
>   
Is Romain a MOTU or Ubuntu-Universe-Contributor? I.e. are we confident
that he will know about the current state of the release cycle (frozen,
merging, beta, RC etc) and act appropriately?

We want to avoid the must-be-a-generalist barrier that MOTU folks face,
but we should still satisfy ourselves that someone will be an effective
collaborator while focusing on their specific package. In a similar
vein, for example, we need to be confident that someone understands how
to work with MOTU and that they won't have a maintainer lock on their
package in Ubuntu in the same way that they do in Debian.

I'm sure those things are all OK in this case, but am asking for the
record and to establish a precedent for the consideration of these
matters in cases like this.

Mark
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