Ubuntu Council and supporting Phil

[Doug Smythies]

On 2013.08.18 11:34 Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>> I think we got too caught-up in the idea of needing a single leader.  At
the
>> moment people seem to be doing good work without even having a formal
>> leader.

> I certainly agree that progress is being made without a single leader.
> My specific concern at the meeting here is due to the fact that
> currently the Community Council is the owner of the team in Launchpad.
> That means the CC gets all bug reports, and all kinds of doc-related
> things that we don't necessarily want to see because we're a
> governance body that is just holding the keys to the team until
> someone else can take them.

> The other option is doing something like creating a doc team owners
> team in launchpad that for now includes, say, Benjamin and Doug. Then
> assign this team as owner instead of the CC. Then we don't need a
> single strong leader to own the team and we reduce the ever-present
> hit-by-a-bus risk of having a single leader as team owner.

I thought we had a transition plan, that was already partly implemented.
Benjamin, Kevin, and myself were made administrators of the doc committers
group. The doc committers group "owns" the doc contributors group, so that
part is done. And doesn't that mean that us three also have "keys" to
the team?

Now, we should not confuse "administrator" with "leader".

Will a clear single leader emerge? We can only hope, but myself I doubt
it. I think the overall doc-team encompasses to much for any one person.
Just as we are attempting to improve and update the various "how-to"
pages for doc contributors, we need to improve, update, and create
various "how-to" pages for doc committers. For example, Peter Matulis
and I have created and are editing and updating the serverguide
committer page [1], based on a generic committers page started by
Matthew East [2], with the objective that everything a serverguide
specific committer does in a cycle is written down. This goes
specifically to the "hit-by-a-bus" point, as that is exactly the
scenario we are attempting to cover.

Elizabeth: In my opinion, if the CC wants, it could remove itself from
the doc-committer team right now. However, and since your are already
acting as the liaison, maybe it would make sense for you to stay on as
a doc-committer admin for as long as you want. It means you would still
get the tons of e-mails, but at least the entire CC wouldn't.

... Doug

[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/Repository/Mem
bers-Serverguide
[2]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/Repository/Mem
bers