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

[Iain Lane]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 03:20:45PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> > 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'm going to add Dan and Mattia right now (done). We just received a 
request to transfer ownership of the team to the TB, which I agreed to.

> 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).

To be honest, I think you could - and I'd prefer it if you would - leave 
this up to the team, especially if there are newly active members.

I'd like to talk with the new team about this, but I'm personally not 
interested in participating in the current process. It's broken by 
design IMO. I'd be interested in participating in creating a reformed 
process and more than happy to explain to the team what I consider to be 
wrong with the way things are now, but I'll probably not be leading any 
reform efforts myself just for spoons reasons. On that basis I'd be OK 
stepping down from being an administrator, and possibly leaving the team 
altogether, depending on what the active members consider their 
priorities to be. Again I'd prefer to work that out with the team rather 
than the new owners doing this 'from above'.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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