Upload permission for Romain Francoise for 'emacs-snapshot'

[Charliej]

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
> That very strongly qualifies someone technically.
>
>> 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
>>   
> This is new ground for us, and that's a good thing! I'm not asking
> just to be difficult, but because Romain is the first non-MOTU or
> non-Canonical person where we are looking at this. Being Canonical
> isn't really relevant except that such a person would be surrounded by
> folks steeped in Ubuntu-ness :-). So, thanks Romain for catalyzing
> this discussion!
>
> I think we should ask the MOTU Council and Tech Board to comment, and
> see what sort of guidelines they would like to establish for someone
> who is clearly technically competent (a DD and/or an upstream in the
> relevant package) to participate in a specific package in Ubuntu.
>
> Mark
So just to clarify, an upstream author can apply for per-package upload
rights even though they are not a DD, MOTU or UUC?

Charlie