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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 of 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

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

The processes are both outlined at UbuntuDevelopers:

• Starting Development

• Joining universe-contributors

• Joining MOTU

• Joining ubuntu-core-dev

Team Report

• MOTU/Council/TeamReport

• MOTU/Council/Attic

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