<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> Reinhard Tartler wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8763pd702l.fsf@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> That very strongly qualifies someone technically. <blockquote cite="mid:8763pd702l.fsf@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>