"What I like least in Ubuntu"

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 25 July 2011 07:45, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> 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.
>
> I would recommend people to apply for 'Ubuntu Contributing Developer'
> before applying for MOTU or core-dev.

I disagree with your recommendation. I recently got my Ubuntu
membership through the Regional Boards and it turns out I was a good
candidate for the Ubuntu Contributing Developer (UCD) route which I
had actually not heard of yet. UCD provides no extra privileges or
status, and there's no point in anybody who is already a Ubuntu Member
getting UCD status before applying for MOTU or core-dev.

Jeremy Bicha