<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br>On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Matt Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:12:07AM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 16:06 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I noticed that it wasn't a prerequisite to be a MOTU or core developer or</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Debian developer, which is a bit surprising to me (maybe I missed some</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>previous discussion on this?). Anyone who has enough packaging experience</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>to be able to review other people's work should surely be qualified to</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>upload their own work to Ubuntu or Debian, no? I guess the idea is that</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>they are evaluating the packages as a group, rather than individually.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Indeed: this is a group evaluation, and on the board Allison, Elliot</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(MOTU), Andrew (MOTU), and Stéphane (core-dev) have packaging</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>experience, with all members having programming experience.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>How many seats are we aiming to fill on the board?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We originally discussed five to seven, so this will be five.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I'm happy for us to seed this new Board in fairly ad hoc fashion, since we</span><br><span>don't know exactly how it will work until we try it. Under the</span><br><span>circumstances, I think perhaps the best thing would be to have a relatively</span><br><span>short initial term (say 6 months?), after which we will go through a more</span><br><span>formal evaluation process. Does that sound OK?</span><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></blockquote><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">It is funny you should say that, but I was thinking the same thinking thing - I think a six month term could be an appropriate term to trial the board and the current process. What does everyone else think?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> Jono</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from my mobile, please forgive my brevity.</span><br></div></div></body></html>