Application to add ~xnox to ~ubuntu-archive

[Steve Langasek]

[The ordinary membership of the ubuntu-archive team is handled internally by
the archive team, and directly by the launchpad team admins; Cc:ing TB for
awareness, but they can be dropped from Cc: going forward, modulo the
separate discussion point Seb brings up.]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:29:14PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Hi ~ubuntu-archive admins & techboard,

> I would like to apply for ~ubuntu-archive team membership. Initially
> scoped to exclusively working on & reviewing existing kernel related
> packages. Many tasks to publish regular kernel updates require
> privileges above of ~ubuntu-core-dev since binary packages are renamed
> with every upload and signing is required to be performed.

> I am well versed in binary package reviews, adding / removing
> packages, submitting / reviewing / signing signed artefacts. I
> understand and use most archive reports, and have contributed fixes to
> them in the past. I will not exercise the ~ubuntu-archive powers on
> any request that I myself generate. I shouldn't need any ssh access
> either.

Is this request in response to a perceived lack of throughput on kernel
handling?  A desire to move handling of the kernels to someone within the
Kernel Team other than Andy, to free him up for other work?  Is this
request backed by the Kernel Team as a whole?

Note that there are other existing AA+SRU team members who are trained up on
handling of kernel updates (Łukasz and myself).  I don't know about Łukasz,
but I have had zero requests for me to handle kernel updates for probably at
least a year; they seem to all get handled on UK time before my start of
work.  So if there is a need to speed up handling of kernel updates, I'd
like to understand first why the available resources are not being leveraged
for this before adding more people to a privileged team.

Also, I am generally opposed to giving people privileged team access on the
basis that they only intend to use the access for a limited subset of that
team's responsibilities, without a clear plan to also train that person up
to handle all of the tasks.

None of this precludes you being made a member of the team, I just want us
to be clear about rationale and the parameters under which such a thing
should happen.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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