Giving upload rights to non-Ubuntu members

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Just a note of support for this from my perspective (and if desired, can
raise with the wider CC). In most areas of Ubuntu folks can participate
directly before taking on membership, it's healthy to have an onramp for
contributions with membership as a destination. Would leave it to the TB
to frame the governance of the actual contributions in this case, I
think it would be reasonable to suggest that such packageset permissions
are time-limited and that we have a clear view of the governance of each
set of permissions and the strategy for quality control that goes with it.

Mark

On 22/07/13 21:07, Iain Lane wrote:
> Hi TB,
>
> The Developer Membership Board (DMB) has developed a proposal to allow for the
> granting of per-package upload rights to individuals without the (currently
> implicit) granting of Ubuntu membership. The intention is to lower the barrier
> to entry as we would no longer need to assess against the "significant and
> sustained contribution" threshold, which is commonly understood to mean six
> months of active participation in the Ubuntu community. We'll be able, for
> example, to give greater weight to upstream contributions or to participation
> in other distributions (essentially, to concentrate on technical skill).
>
> We don't propose to change any existing memberships, nor to alter MOTU or
> core-dev in any way.
>
> The general way this works is as follows (some exceptions come after).
> Individuals, when they apply to the DMB for packageset or PPU rights, will be
> considered separately for their upload access and for Ubuntu membership (the
> latter being optional, and usually not explicitly requested). There will be
> some necessary changes to team structure:
>
>   - Create an "~ubuntu-uploaders" team which is a member of bug control and
>     similar teams. Direct members are ~ubuntu-dev, uploaders without membership
>     and non-membership (see later) packageset teams.
>   - Create an "~ubuntu-developer-members" team to be a member of any membership
>     related teams (ubuntumembers, ...). Direct members are members who were
>     granted membership by the DMB and ~ubuntu-dev.  
>   - ~ubuntu-dev is for PPU who also have membership, and membership (again, see
>     later) most packageset teams. As now, it's the team which will be polled to
>     elections for development governance bodies (DMB & TB). 
>
> Since some packages have a greater impact on Ubuntu users than others, we would
> like to keep the membership requirement in certain cases (albeit retaining the
> discretion to waive it in exceptional cases; this needn't create onerous
> difficulties on the part of applicants as such membership considerations will
> in most cases be implicit anyway). These are:
>
>   - Flavor packagesets: since these operate at the project level, we feel it's
>     appropriate for these developers to have project membership. For the
>     avoidance of doubt, we take flavors to include Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu
>     Server here.
>   - "Core" packages: since these have a large impact on every Ubuntu user, we
>     require uploaders to demonstrate their commitment to the project by
>     qualifying for Ubuntu membership. "Core" in this context means the
>     packagesets core, desktop-core, xorg, XXX precise list TBD; any packagesets
>     which contain packages that intersect with the above; and PPU for any
>     package contained in the above.
>   
> We recognise that the second point above about core packages could be confusing
> for applicants as it creates two categories of package with differing
> requirements. To help with this, we will maintain a canonical list of such
> packagesets and ensure it is appropriately documented. It also implies that we
> will need to decide at packageset creation time whether a package should
> require membership or not.
>
> We'd like the TB to discuss this proposal, to suggest any amendments you feel
> are necessary and to concur with its implementation. If you add it to the
> agenda of one of your meetings (probably a decent idea), please let the DMB
> know so that we can show up to answer questions and consider amendments.
> Otherwise we are fine to deal with it over email.
>
> Thanks, on behalf of the DMB,
>
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/attachments/20130722/cc0ad012/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 263 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/attachments/20130722/cc0ad012/attachment-0001.pgp>