- Developer Membership Board meeting, 2009-12-08
Alberto Milone -> core-dev
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlbertoMilone/CoreDeveloperApplication
- not present, wanted to ask a few questions, so continued by email
- Daniel Chen: ubuntu-core-dev reactivation
- approved (+1: pitti, Keybuk, kees, cjwatson, mdz)
- Adrian Perez: azureus, eclipse, swt-gtk
- azureus, eclipse in universe, already approved by MC
- swt-gtk approved (+1: cjwatson, pitti, kees, mdz)
- future roles of the DMB vs. motu-council
- keep motu-council for non-developer-membership functions
- nominate all members of TB and MC for 7 member election of DMB
- [ACTION] mdz to drive election for DMB, based on existing members of TB and MC
- Next meeting: 2009-12-22, 1500UTC. Chair: pitti
- Developer Membership Board meeting, 2009-12-22
- Attendees:
- DMB: Martin Pitt (chair), Matt Zimmerman, Scott James Remnant
- Guests: Alberto Milone, Scott Kitterman, Emmet Hikory
- Review of previous action items:
- mdz to drive election for DMB, based on existing members of TB and MC: ongoing, still waiting for one nominee to confirm/decline
Alberto Milone -> core-dev
- Approved (+3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained)
Updating https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers to reflect DMB changes (Emmet):
- should applicants for core-dev be applying directly to the DMB, rather than first through the MC? → Yes
- should core-dev applicants be encouraged to previously be Ubuntu Developers (in some way), or is that on a per-applicant basis? → Should not generally be required; depending on applicant's interests, (s)he can apply directly for core-dev, with a higher barrier for entry
- Does the DMB also expect to take applicants for Contributing Developer? → Yes, since this was previously a function of the MC, which is being merged with DMB
ACTION: Emmet to ask CC to make DMB an admin of ~universe-contributors, as part of the DMB/MC merge
- Would it make sense to list MOTU (and MC) as a delegated team by DMB? It was historically delegated by TB, but in its former function for approving developers; for consistent documentation, MOTU should now be regarded as a DMB delegate, similar to ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-dev, etc.
- OK. Last question: Is the term "Ubuntu Specialist Developer" acceptable as an umbrella category to describe members of "Ubuntu Desktop Developers", "Mythbuntu Developers", "Kubuntu Developers", and "MOTU"? → The discussion did not bring up a good term for this; decision was to go with "Ubuntu Developer (from delegated team)" for now and change to a better name later on
- Attendees:
- DMB election
- Waiting for one nominated candidate to confirm/decline; decision should be made by Thursday, Dec 24
- 3 weeks voting period, plus some slack for Christmas holidays
- Voting period: 24 Dec to 18 Jan
- Next meeting: 2010-01-05, 1500UTC. Chair: mdz