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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

[ FYI: I just subscribed ubuntu-backports@ (where I wasn't before) - so
if we want to discuss specific bpo plans we can drop u-devel@  ]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:00:26PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> 1) Open call for initial volunteers
> - 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
> 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?)
> 3) New team has initial public irc meeting (and email/chat
> communication as needed) to make any process reforms (membership,
> backports process, etc)

TBH, I'd swap these items 2 and 3 ;)
Better decide everything in one swoop rather than risking needing any
change later again.

> 4) update public documentation
> 5) New team starts work on reviewing backports


Shall we settle on some dates already?  Keeping in mind that August is a
month of holiday for quite a few people, plus there is the Debian
release in the middle, what about settling on September 5th as a
deadline for point 1, trying for an (IRC?) meeting sometime the next
week?  I'm being very slow-minded in my scheduling here, if you'd like
to keep a quicker momentum, I can agree with an earlier date as well.


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