[UbuntuWomen] Fwd: Changes to Launchpad team membership

[Jessica Ledbetter]

This means that if someone wants to join, an administrator has to
approve, right? That all?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> FYI, since this impacted our team on Launchpad as well.
>
> There hasn't been a policy change on our end, we still want to be an
> open team, but due to global changes in Launchpad it became moderated.
> As described in Matthew's email below they hope to have this sorted in
> a few days.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matthew Revell <matthew.revell at canonical.com>
> Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM
> Subject: Changes to Launchpad team membership
> To: loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I work on the Launchpad team at Canonical. Before I say anything else,
> I'm sorry for the way that we've handled the recent changes to team
> membership policies. We should have spoken to the teams who would be
> affected before we made the change.
>
> We're working on a fix, which we hope to release next week.
>
> To summarise the change: if a team has a restricted membership policy
> all of its sub-teams now inherit that same policy. We did this because
> members of an open team could upload packages to the restricted parent
> team's PPA. Clearly this is a security problem.
>
> The effect on loco teams is that they inherit the restricted
> membership policy of locoteams-approved.
>
> The fix we're proposing is to introduce a new membership policy: a
> restricted parent team can have open sub-teams. However, teams with
> this membership policy will not be allowed PPAs.
>
> So, please bear with us for a few days while we work on this fix. I've
> seen some people mention that they may consider withdrawing their loco
> team from the locoteams-approved team. Please don't do that, we'll
> have it back to normal in a few days.
>
> Thanks.
>
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