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The Ubuntu Developer Membership Board operates on the following basis:

• The list of the Developer Membership Board members can be found on Launchpad.

• You can reach the board by email.

Application process

The Ubuntu Developer Membership Board currently approves per-package uploaders and Core Developers. To apply, please follow this process.

The following changes were agreed on:

• devel-permissions@lists.ubuntu.com list will used

• invitations/applications go there as well as to relevant team list
• all approvals go to ubuntu-devel@ (meeting minutes) and devel-permissions@ (individual outcomes) (maybe also to the team list)

The implementation of the application process might vary across teams slightly, but we expect the following very general procedure:

• documentation,
• declaring intent,
• discussion with applicant,
• public announcement

Delegation

The DMB currently delegated approval privileges to

• the Desktop team -- Policy

• the Mythbuntu team

Policy

• the Kubuntu team -- Policy

This delegation includes individual per-package upload privileges for packages which are in the corresponding team package set.

Meeting

The DMB currently meets every two weeks in #ubuntu-meeting at 15:00 UTC. See agenda and meeting minutes.

2010 Election

Nominees for the 2010 Developer Membership Board election are:

• Colin Watson
• Emmet Hikory
• Jonathan Davies
• Michael Bienia
• Richard Johnson
• Soren Hansen
• Stéphane Graber
• Benjamin Drung
• Cody Somerville

The voting period began 24 December 2009 and runs through 18 January 2010.

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