rfc: permissions on package branches

[Jonathan Lange]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 17, 2011 05:20:07 pm John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> On 2/14/2011 11:34 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
>> > We have a question in <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516709> about
>> > what the permissions on official package branches ought to be, and how
>> > they should be explained to the user.
>>
>> Obviously people feel very passionate about this subject, given the
>> intense discussion. </sarcasm>
>
> So far I asked what a "celebrity" is in this context and no one answered.
>

It's Launchpad jargon for a person or team known directly by the
codebase. ~admins is the classic example, ~ubuntu-branches is another.

jml