"What I like least in Ubuntu"

[Iain Lane]

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> On 25.07.2011 13:51, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >>> So I applied and (after ~6 weeks) during UDS-O DMB's meeting I got it.
> >>> > > Just to understand that what I really needed was 'Per Package Uploader'
> >>> > > level. So it edited my wiki page and applied again. Today I would
> >>> > > totally skip first phase as from my perspective it was useless waste of
> >>> > > time.
> 
> >> > I would recommend people to apply for 'Ubuntu Contributing Developer'
> >> > before applying for MOTU or core-dev.
> 
> > I think it's a fair point that UCD is confusing.  What it means is "Ubuntu 
> > member that got their membership based on development contribution and not 
> > some other kind".  Do we really need a different name for this?  It might be 
> > more clear to just have the DMB grant Ubuntu membership by name rather than 
> > have a separate name/team that doesn't actually mean anything different.
> 
> I think that when someone wants to apply for PPU (like me) then
> documentation should be more clear that UCD and PPU can be done at same
> time. Or UCD status should be given to PPU automatically.

It is (well, membership via ~ubuntu-dev):

  Per-package uploaders [...] are implicitly considered Ubuntu Members

from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers#PerPackage

I just updated that page a bit. It's probably not clear enough that UCD
is 'just' Ubuntu Membership granted by the DMB. Please help me out by
finding a way to clarify this.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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