Congratulations, Jonathan Riddell!

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Jonathan Riddell">

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:15:21AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Congratulations and welcome aboard to Jonathan Riddell, who made his first
> > upload today. :-)
> 
> Shucks, thanks Jeff.  Does that make me one of the first non-canonical
> uploaders?

Yep. Right now, it's you and Chris Halls, fearless OpenOffice.org maintainer
and Kubuntu team lead. :-)

> I uploaded to warty-security by the build logs havn't shown up.  Are the
> build logs kept secret and why?  What's the process for security uploads
> being approved and how can I keep track of it?

Security build logs are not published at the moment. They use a different
upload queue, because security releases are often embargoed (kept private
until a certain date, usually by security communities such as vendor-sec).

The security team (currently Martin Pitt) must approve uploads to any of the
security archives, but there's no public status on these for the same reason
as the build logs.

> What's my status in the new developer and maintainer process?  The wiki
> page is unclear.

You're in the queue, but granted universe upload privileges for the moment
as a member of the Kubuntu team.

> What's the difference between a committer and a maintainer?  What's the
> difference between limited and unlimited?

A committer will be able to commit fixes to the package repositories when
the whole launchpad suite is cooking. A maintainer will be able to make
package releases. In some cases, developers will be limited to particular
packages, certain groups of packages, or all of universe, etc. Unlimited
maintainer/committer rights will give complete access to all the packages in
main and universe.

> Currently I'm not allowed to upload to main but if kdelibs is moved to
> main (to allow for KDE integrated openoffice) I may need to be able to,
> what's the process for being allowed to touch main?

Becoming an official Ubuntu maintainer first, and then having specific
access to packages in, or all of main.

> What's the process for NEW packages?  How often are they reviewed?  elmo
> said that NEW should "have broken", why is that?

More than once a day, for sure. Dunno about the specifics of your upload,
perhaps James can answer for us.

> KDE 3.4 can use HAL which requires DBUS Qt bindings, is the dbus package
> likely to get Qt bindings?

Sure, would you like to send a patch for the package?

> KDE 3.4 also includes DNS-SD using mDNSResponder-87 from apple.  Is the
> Apple Public Source Licence 2 likly to cause any problems?  It seems to
> have the approval of the FSF.

Boh, why is KDE using Apple's stuff instead of howl?

- Jeff

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