Plan to reform the Ubuntu Backporters Team [was: Proposal: sunset the backports pockets]

Dan Streetman ddstreet at canonical.com
Mon Aug 9 21:51:13 UTC 2021


On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:40 AM Dan Streetman <ddstreet at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:20 AM Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:00:26PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > > So as far as next steps based on your proposal, it seems like:
> >
> > I detailed the next steps specifically in my proposal but focused on
> > slightly different things, so I appreciate you laying out your
> > perspective also. What you suggest here is essentially the same anyway.
>
> sorry yes you did, agreed that my list was essentially the same as yours
>
> >
> > > 1) Open call for initial volunteers
> > > - I volunteer for the leadership role (at least for the initial
> > > re-establishment), assuming there are no objections
> >
> > Looks like there have been no objections. To be clear, I understand that
> > you're also volunteering for the day-to-day role?
>
> yes
>
> >
> > > - mapreri volunteers for day-to-day role (thanks Mattia!)
> > > - this email thread seems like a good enough call to the community for
> > > anyone else who wants to volunteer, either in a leadership role or
> > > day-to-day role
> >
> > +1. It appears that Mattia and Dan are currently the only volunteers.
> >
> > > 2) Administrative changes to ~ubuntu-backporters
> > > - I don't see any public documentation on an existing process for
> > > membership changes to ~ubuntu-backporters, so I assume your proposal
> > > along with the disussion here is enough justification to ask the TB to
> > > make the changes, assuming there is no objection from the TB of
> > > course, or from existing active members (Laney I assume all this
> > > sounds ok to you?)
> >
> > There has been no objection, so I intend to make the changes as agreed
> > in this thread as soon as ~techboard gets control of the team. Since
> > there is consensus here, I see no need to ask for TB permission
> > specifically (or, if you prefer to consider it this way, I will use my
> > TB hat to JFDI).
> >
> > I haven't managed to reach ScottK who currently owns the
> > ~ubuntu-backporters team. However he stepped away from Ubuntu
> > development quite a long time ago, and I don't think he would have any
> > objection to handing over the reins to ~techboard. So I filed
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/698165 yesterday to
> > request this change.
> >
> > Assuming the change is made, following my proposal detail, I intend to
> > remove everyone from ~ubuntu-backports and add Dan as its sole admin,
> > and then let Dan take it from there (I assume he will add Mattia as a
> > team member, and maybe Iain).
> >
> > If we can't have ~ubuntu-backporters, I suppose I could register
> > ~ubuntu-backporters2 and swap the queue ACLs over, but this seems
> > unlikely (and suboptimal).
>
> +1 all sounds good to me
>
> >
> > > 3) New team has initial public irc meeting (and email/chat
> > > communication as needed) to make any process reforms (membership,
> > > backports process, etc)
> > > 4) update public documentation
> > > 5) New team starts work on reviewing backports
> > >
> > > does that seem correct?
> >
> > This sounds good to me. These steps 3-5 would be for you (Dan) to
> > organise.
>
> I'm fine with Mattia's suggestion for the first irc mtg the week of
> Sept 6-10; my TZ is us/eastern (currently UTC-4) so my preference
> would be anytime between 12:00 and 22:00 UTC, but I could push that a
> bit earlier or later if needed.
>
> mapreri, teward, any preference on the day and/or time for the first
> mtg? Does Wed, Sept 8 at 14:00 UTC sound ok?

It sounds like both of you prefer this time or (preferably) later, so
would Sept 8 at 16:00 UTC be agreeable for you? That's right in the
middle of my day.

Iain, and Robie if you plan to join, would that work for you as well?

>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robie



More information about the ubuntu-devel mailing list