Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:34 AM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
> I think one source of confusion is that "Ubuntu Contributing Developers" is
> not a subset of "Ubuntu Developers":
>
> According to the link above, "Ubuntu Developers /.../ are granted direct
> upload to the Ubuntu archive, according to their application", whereas
> "Ubuntu Contributing Developers /.../ still have to get uploads sponsored".
>
> We should probably change one of "Ubuntu Contributing Developers" and
> "Ubuntu Developers" to reduce confusion - maybe "Ubuntu Developers" should
> be renamed to "Ubuntu Uploading Developers", and let "Ubuntu Developers"
> mean the combination of both "Ubuntu Contributing Developers" and "Ubuntu
> Uploading Developers"?


That's a good point, because https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers
includes "prospective" also in the "Ubuntu Developer" category for new
contributors, which definitely don't have upload rights (yet). So some
wording there needs to change.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan