Liaison to Launchpad

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Jordan Mantha wrote:
> We ran a bit out of time at the last QA meeting to finish our
> discussion of the proposal about creating a QA Launchpad Liaison role.
> I wrote up a little wiki page describing the role:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanMantha/QALiaison
>   
I'm not sure a QA-LP Liaison is the right model here. The real issue 
seems to be a lack of transparency in the communication between 
Canonical members of QA and the Launchpad team. This is a valid point 
and is something we should fix.

We have just started up a series of bi-weekly calls between the LP bugs 
team and Canonical QA team members - the second call was yesterday. This 
continues the good discussions we have started with them at UDS and 
other meetings. To improve community involvement we would like to invite 
a community QA team member to sit in on each of those calls to represent 
the community view and take notes for publication on the public wiki and 
mailing list.

This is actually quite similar to the Liaison idea but brings this 
person on board to the same channel of communication we have established 
anyway, and seems to me to give greater insight into the process than a 
separate Liaison position and does not add noo many separate voices from 
the point of view of the LP team. Unlike an appointed Liaison, the call 
participant does not have to be the same person each time.

My hunch is that the participating community members will find that the 
Canonical members generally represent the collective needs of the whole 
QA community quite well in this meetings. But if I'm wrong then this 
meeting participation should help fill the gaps and would also enlighten 
me and others about what the varying needs are :)

Another step in opening up the LP-QA communications will be described in 
a second email about the LP feature request priority process.

Henrik