* Developer Membership Board meeting, 2010-02-02

  * Chair: Colin Watson
  * Present: Emmet Hikory, Michael Bienia, Soren Hansen, Stéphane Graber
  * Absent: Cody Somerville, Richard Johnson
  * First meeting of new board following election
  * Action review
   * '''[ACTION]''' persia to ask CC to make DMB an admin of ~universe-contributors, as part of the DMB/MC merge (carried over; but in the meantime TB members can act on changes)
  * motu-release team currently does not have any administrators (Scott Kitterman)
   * Dealt with by setting ubuntu-release as administrator, pending a full team merge
  * MOTU direction (ScottK, cjwatson)
   * initial drafting complete, subject to approval by DMB and TB
   * '''[ACTION]''' ScottK to start discussion on future of MOTU Council among its constituency (MOTU)
   * DMB is presently hearing MOTU applications, although there seems to be some confusion about this
    * '''[ACTION]''' cjwatson to confirm MOTU process with TB
   * current draft approved unanimously, aside from pending motu-council sections
   * will continue with TB
  * Approval of the [[DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess|application process for new applications]]
   * approved unanimously
  * Per-package uploader: [[MartinEricRacine|Martin-Éric Racine]] for xserver-xorg-video-geode
   * Martin-Éric has done fine work on this in the past, and is already a member of MOTU; approved unanimously.  Welcome!
  * Ubuntu Contributing Developer: [[DmitrijsLedkovs|Dmitrijs Ledkovs]]
   * Dmitrijs has been working on xiphos and sword, and was approved unanimously for universe-contributors.  Welcome!
  * MOTU and per-package-uploader: [[ElliotMurphy/DeveloperApplication|Elliot Murphy]]
   * See [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2010-January/002370.html|previous thread on motu-council]]
   * We separated Elliot's application into a few parts:
    * MOTU
     * Of five members present, two voted in favour, with three abstentions (citing a desire for more sponsored uploads)
     * '''[ACTION]''' cjwatson to gather votes from absent members by e-mail
    * ubuntuone-client, ubuntuone-storage-protocol, erlang, couchdb, desktopcouch, python-configglue, rabbitmq-server: approved unanimously
    * evolution-couchdb, couchdb-glib: denied on the basis that the person directly maintaining these should apply instead; Elliot intends to do packaging work on these and will reapply
    * libubuntuone: not yet in the archive; deferred