Ubuntu Governance Reboot: Five Proposals

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, November 24, 2014 18:27:10 Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> Just throwing this out there to start discussing it:
> 
> Jone Bacon wrote another blog post about Ubuntu Governance
> http://www.jonobacon.org/2014/11/24/ubuntu-governance-reboot-five-proposals/

OK.  I'll bite on one bit:

> Do we need both a CC and TB?
(Community Council and Technical Board)

Yes.  They do different things and need different types of members.

The CC is about community and project governance.  Any Ubuntu member, 
regardless of their area of contribution to Ubuntu should consider they have 
the possibility to be a CC member some day.  It is in charge of determining 
who should be an Ubuntu member (delegated to other teams these days, but back 
in the day, the CC did it directly and it's still a CC responsibility that's 
delegated).

The TB is there to manage the technical direction of the project.  It resolves 
technical questions about design, development, and support of Ubuntu.  As 
such, contributors need to have a technical background and elected members 
have always been Ubuntu developers.  The TB is responsible for determining who 
should be a developer (a power they've delegated to the Developer Membership 
Board (DMB)).

Scott K