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| The MOTU Council is the central place for decision making and improve MOTU management. It will help to find consensus and have a final say in conflicts. It will also take care of approval of new MOTUs. Apart from that it will try to organise the MOTU efforts and make it easy for everybody to concentrate on what they want to do. | <<Include(MOTU/Headers/Menu)>> ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''<<BR>><<TableOfContents>>|| |
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| Its current members: https://launchpad.net/~motu-council | <<Include(MOTU/Council/Disclaimer)>> |
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| The public MOTU Council mailing list will be announced shortly. If you have any private matters to discuss, feel free to contact member of the Council. | The MOTU Council is the central place for approving new [[UbuntuDevelopers#ContribDev|ubuntu-universe-contributors]] and [[UbuntuDeveloper#MOTU|motu]] team members and helping to find consensus and have a final say in conflicts. It reports to the CommunityCouncil (see [[CommunityCouncil/Delegation]]) and the TechnicalBoard. Its current members: https://launchpad.net/~motu-council <<BR>> The mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/motu-council All team members have a term length of 2 years. |
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| * Help to find consensus in MOTU decisions. * Help with leadership and organisation. * Ping `ubuntu-dev` members after half a year without activity. (Members once deactivated can re-apply easily.) |
* It will review applications and approve or defer MOTU candidates * Its actions and processes will be * open * transparent * responsive to MOTUs * It will supervise policy decisions done by the MOTU team and can thus * intervene only if really needed * It can make own policy decisions if otherwise no progress would be made at all * It will help resolving disputes among MOTU developers. * It will make efforts to keep the atmosphere calm and productive. * It will be a point of contact for developers & reponsible to the TechnicalBoard |
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| == Decision making == The MOTU Council will have a quorum of three. Decisions are made with a simple majority. As soon as a Council member calls for a vote (on the MC mailing list), the council members have 48 hours to cast their votes. In case three affirmative votes have been cast before 48 hours have elapsed, the decision is valid immediately. Otherwise a simple majority of the votes will result in the decision. |
== Grants of Authority == * The TechnicalBoard has granted MOTU Council authority to mediate in technical discussions affecting packages in the Universe component * The CommunityCouncil has granted MOTU Council authority to mediate in social discussions amoung MOTU or related to development in the Universe component * The CommunityCouncil has granted MOTU Council authority to approve implicit UbuntuMembership through development activities * The DeveloperMembershipBoard has granted MOTU Council authority to approve new MOTU * MOTU have granted MOTU Council authority to serve as final appeal for policy determinations within the MOTU team In each case, MOTU Council is responsible to the body granting authority, and must report any actions or decisions taken in a timely manner. |
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| Discussions about policy changes will take place on the ubuntu-motu mailing list. On the motu-council list, only organisational discussions and member applications will take place. | Discussions about policy changes will take place on the [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu|ubuntu-motu mailing list]]. On the [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/motu-council|motu-council list]], only organisational discussions will take place. |
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| See [:MOTU/Council/Meetings]. | The MOTU Council holds regular [[MOTU/Council/Meeting|meetings]]. |
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| == MOTU membership approval == The process is outlined at ["MOTU/Hopeful/Recruitment"]. |
== Review of membership applications == |
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| * [[MOTU#JoiningMOTU|Joining MOTU]] | |
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| == TODO == stuff, that should be done before meeting: * setup an agenda -> done * mailing list -> in progress, dholbach. * write process documents * find out what we need to improve in the MOTU world and think about ways how to do it |
== Team Report == * '''[[MOTU/Council/TeamReport]]''' * [[MOTU/Council/Attic]] |
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Contents |
The MOTU Council is not operative at the moment. All its responsibilities have been assumed by:
The MOTU Council is the central place for approving new ubuntu-universe-contributors and motu team members and helping to find consensus and have a final say in conflicts. It reports to the CommunityCouncil (see CommunityCouncil/Delegation) and the TechnicalBoard.
Its current members: https://launchpad.net/~motu-council
The mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/motu-council
All team members have a term length of 2 years.
Responsibilities
- It will review applications and approve or defer MOTU candidates
- Its actions and processes will be
- open
- transparent
- responsive to MOTUs
- It will supervise policy decisions done by the MOTU team and can thus
- intervene only if really needed
- It can make own policy decisions if otherwise no progress would be made at all
- It will help resolving disputes among MOTU developers.
- It will make efforts to keep the atmosphere calm and productive.
It will be a point of contact for developers & reponsible to the TechnicalBoard
Grants of Authority
The TechnicalBoard has granted MOTU Council authority to mediate in technical discussions affecting packages in the Universe component
The CommunityCouncil has granted MOTU Council authority to mediate in social discussions amoung MOTU or related to development in the Universe component
The CommunityCouncil has granted MOTU Council authority to approve implicit UbuntuMembership through development activities
The DeveloperMembershipBoard has granted MOTU Council authority to approve new MOTU
- MOTU have granted MOTU Council authority to serve as final appeal for policy determinations within the MOTU team
In each case, MOTU Council is responsible to the body granting authority, and must report any actions or decisions taken in a timely manner.
Discussions
Discussions about policy changes will take place on the ubuntu-motu mailing list. On the motu-council list, only organisational discussions will take place.
Meetings
The MOTU Council holds regular meetings.
Review of membership applications
Team Report
Go back to MOTU.
CategoryMOTU
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