"What I like least in Ubuntu"

Iain Lane laney at ubuntu.com
Mon Jul 25 16:19:01 UTC 2011


Hiya,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:59:08AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:34:47 AM Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> 
> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > There is only one difference between UCD and any other Ubuntu Member:
> > UCD can vote in new-DMB elections and in theory vote if there's ever a
> > technical decision put to a vote, which I don't think there has been
> > since I became a MOTU.
> 
> Do they?  I'm having trouble finding documentation on this.  
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-
> December/000659.html says ubuntu-dev (which UCD are not part of) and I think 
> that's correct.  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard does not 
> discuss how the DMB is formed (perhaps it should).

I share your interpretation too. Backed up by this page

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil/Restaffing

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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