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Next MOTU Meeting (details)

Thursday, December 6th 2012, 16:00 UTC

Next Packaging Training Session (details)

TBD

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

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:

Team Report


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