Upload permission for Romain Francoise for 'emacs-snapshot'

Reinhard Tartler siretart at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 3 15:53:22 BST 2008


Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> writes:

> 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?

He is (currently) neither a motu nor an ubuntu-universe-contributor. I

He has shown technical competence by:
 - being a DD
 - maintaining an public debian archive on his own machines
 - uploading updated package to the ~ubuntu-elisp PPA.

As for ubuntu policy and procedure competence, I think he is qualified because
 - he knows the importance of freezes from the debian drill
 - he asked me on his own for freeze guidelines
 - I have educated him with the relevant freeze links to the ubuntu wiki

> 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 in very good contact with Romain for quite some time now maintaining
emacs-snapshot and our version of the emacs22 package, which packaging
is based on Romain's emacs-snapshot package. IMO, this, and the points I
indicated above qualifies for being an effective collaborator to ubuntu!

> 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.

Of course!

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