Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Michael Bienia <michael at bienia.de> wrote:
> On 2010-08-15 09:44:52 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>> According to Jono's original post, this process is not a Canonical
>> formulated plan at all but has been developed with consultation with
>> community contributors and the Technical Board. I can see that it has
>> been discussed at this thread [1] and there also seems to have been a
>> (private?) meeting about it [2] but it seems to me that the process
>> that has been followed hasn't succeeded in getting feedback from
>> people with an important opinion about it.
>
> I'm (as a developer) now expected to follow the TB mailing list to get
> notified about discussions important for the Ubuntu development
> community? Is there a list of mailing lists and online resources I
> should follow to be to some extent up-to-date regarding Ubuntu
> development? Apparently following ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-devel-announce
> doesn't look to be enough anymore.
>
> Although the process was public (everyone could comment) it was sort of
> hidden with it taking place on the TB mailing list. Based on the
> discussion we currently see, some other missed that discussion too.
>
> And telling that the process was with "consultation with community
> contributors" when mostly only Canonical people were involved seems IMHO
> wrong as I've trouble to distinguish if they commented as community
> members or Canonical employees. And asking now for community members to
> fill the board doesn't look very motivating for me to get involved in this
> process at all.

Just for the avoidance of doubt, my intention was not to suggest that
the process that was followed was appropriate. The quote that you've
objected to is something I've taken from Jono's original post and
wasn't necessarily something that I've independently checked. My
intention was simply to explore whether the process could have been
done differently so that the objections that people are raising could
have been considered at an earlier stage and discussed transparently
with the TB.

It sounds to me like the answer is that these types of processes
should be discussed on this list, before they are approved by the TB.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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