"What I like least in Ubuntu"

Iain Lane laney at ubuntu.com
Mon Jul 25 15:11:43 UTC 2011


Hello,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> 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
> [...]
> > 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.

I just added a discussion item to the next DMB agenda to rename the team
to Ubuntu Development Members. This is in line with the other delegated
(non RMB) membership names, and I think is much less confusing.

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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