Transferring the delegation of Ubuntu Membership for development activities from the MOTU Council to the Developer Membership Board

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:03:06PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> On 02.02.2010 16:23, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> >     This may be something to be revisited, as ~universe-contributors
> > exists purely as a means of offering membership to those who seek it
> > as a result of their contributions to development.  I don't think it
> > needs to block the administrator change, but I do think it makes sense
> > for the CC to have ultimate control over any group used solely as a
> > mechanism for granting Ubuntu Membership.
> 
> We all know that the power to approve Ubuntu members is delegated by the
> CC and the power to grant upload rights is delegated by the TB. It so
> happened that the TB and the MC effectively granted both by adding
> people (through whatever means) to ~ubuntu-dev.
> 
> Launchpad only knows one owner. Ownership currently looks like this:
>   ~universe-contributors ← ~motu-council ← ~techboard.
> 
> Right now I don't know how to fix the ownership so that implied and real
> delegation match, but in the end I don't think it matters, because we
> know about the fact.
> 
> Please let us JFDI and make ~developer-membership-board owner of
> ~universe-contributors. :-)
> 
> Future:
>   ~universe-contributors ← ~developer-membership-board ← ~techboard.

OK, I've JFDneI.  I've left ~motu-council as an administrator for the
time being, out of general principles or something.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]