Universe QA for Hardy

[Reinhard Tartler]

Jono, I've CC'ed you because of the community system administration
team, see below.

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:

> I'm still a bit annoyed by the fact that there's no official development
> machine for non-Canonical Ubuntu developers. Having all those scripts
> run on various hosts over the internet is clearly not optimal...

I agree with you. However, there was never any official Ubuntu developer
machine. Tiber was donated by canonical to host REVU, so it was even at
that time a bit misused for that.

AFAIUI (and if you are a canonical sysadmin, please correct me),
canonical is not willing to do system administration, account
maintenance, incident investigating, user exiry, backups, etc. (well,
all related task of system administration) for a fuzzy group like
ubuntu-dev (MOTUs). And TBH, I can fully understand that.

However, having said this, there is still the option that we as MOTUs
organize ourselves. We do have access to donated machines (currently
that is sparky and spooky), where we can organize and develop tools for
system administration ourselves. One group working on this is currently
the ubuntuwire team, which can be contacted via irc on #ubuntuwire (if
you prefer to contact us in private, please email either me or
imbrandon). We have started to work on some import scripts for using
libnss-db, and do have plans, but definitely need more manpower to
review and actually implement our plans.

I've been told by Ng that there were some plans to form a team of system
administrators for the ubuntu LOCO servers, a machine from the programme
tiber was in. Ng said he didn't know what the current status is, but
Jono should know. Jono, can you give us an update about this team?
Perhaps we can/should join that with ubuntuwire?

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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