Giving upload rights to non-Ubuntu members

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, July 22, 2013 04:15:55 PM Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Iain,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:07:01PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> While I understand the point of wanting to be able to grant PPU rights to
> developers who have not yet demonstrated the "sustained contribution"
> required for Ubuntu membership, the Ubuntu membership is also a proxy that
> ensures every Ubuntu uploader has signed the Code of Conduct.  Do you intend
> to enforce this requirement for non-member uploaders?
> 
> Cheers,

Yes.  We do.

Scott K