"What I like least in Ubuntu"

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

Am 25.07.2011 13:51, schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> On Monday, July 25, 2011 07:45:50 AM Benjamin Drung wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 25.07.2011, 13:01 +0200 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz:
>>> On 22.07.2011 10:41, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>>>> = Development Processes =
>>>>
>>>>  (2) developer application docs:
>>>>      - too complicated,
>>>>      - unclear expectations
>>>
>>> Amounts of want-to-be-ubuntu-developer levels and their names are
>>> misleading. I wanted to get rights to directly upload my packages and
>>> when I discussed it with few developers I was told to apply for 'Ubuntu
>>> Contributing Developer' (plus some text that MOTU status was replaced by
>>> it from some long time Ubuntu devs).
>>>
>>> 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.

Thanks for your feedback.


>> 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 agree that the name is misleading and it's unfortunate that it
confuses applicants. It'd be good to change it something sensible. Even
if we just change it in the documentation.

The reason this is a separate team (as it is for members approved by the
Forums/Kubuntu/Edubuntu/Ubuntu IRC/... Councils) is to

 1) allow these governance boards to grant separate privileges (ie:
    commit rights, etc.)
 2) To allow voting processes for trusted members of a part of our
    community. (ie: Kubuntu members vote the Kubuntu Council.)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil/Restaffing#Calls_for_Nominations
    has the current list of teams and how voting (at least for
    restaffing works there.)

Still all the membership teams above are member of ~ubuntumembers.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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