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MOTU Leaders

MOTU Leaders coordinate various efforts within MOTU, and update the Monthly Report indicating activity in that area.

MOTU School Dean

• Responsibilities: Coordinates MOTU/School topics and presenters. Sends announcements and maintains wiki pages.

• Currently: James Westby (james_w)

MOTU SWAT Director

• Responsibilities: Lead MOTU efforts to bring prompt and high-quality security fixes to users and consult with MOTUs on security concerns.

• Currently: William Grant (wgrant)

Mentoring Facilitator

• Responsibilities: Ensure that contributors and mentors are well matched and keep track of the mentoring process.

• Current Members: Christophe Sauthier (huats)

Launchpad Liaison

• Responsibilities: Provides Launchpad developers with prioritized bugs/specs relevant to MOTU and MOTU with information on Launchpad changes and progress.

• Currently: William Grant (wgrant) and Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0)

Canonical Liaison

• Responsibilities: Point contact for MOTU-Canonical relations.

• Currently: Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

MOTU Leadership Teams

MOTU Leadership teams provide guidance and direction for MOTU activities.

Council Members

• Responsibilities: The MOTU Council is the central place for approving new MOTU members and helping to find consensus and has a final say in conflicts. It reports to the CommunityCouncil and the TechnicalBoard. (See MOTU/Council for more info)

• Current Members: Daniel Holbach (dholbach), Emmet Hikory (persia), Michael Bienia (geser), Richard Johnson (nixternal), Soren Hansen (soren), Jonathan Davies (jpds), Nathan Handler (nhandler)

• Contact: motu-council mailing list

• Launchpad Team: motu-council

Release Managers

• Responsibilities: Approval of Feature Freeze exceptions.

• Current Members: Scott Kitterman (ScottK), Stefan Potyra (sistpoty), Iulian Udrea (iulian), Nathan Handler (nhandler)

• Contact: Individual members, or use FreezeExceptionProcess for filing exceptions.

• Launchpad Team: motu-release

Stable Release Update Supervisors

• Responsibilities: Approval of Stable Release Updates (SRU)

• Current Members: John Dong (jdong), Cody Somerville (cody-somerville), Devid Antonio Filoni (devfil)

• Contact: Individual members, or use StableReleaseUpdates to file SRU requests

• Launchpad Team: motu-sru

Sponsor Queue Admins

• Responsibilities: Ensure that the ubuntu-universe-sponsors queue is being processed in a timely manner and approve new members.

• Current Members: Luke Yelavich (TheMuso), Emmet Hikory (persia)

Adding a new position or team

• Requests for the identification of a new MOTU Leader Role or Team should be discussed at a MOTU Meeting

  • Send a summary of the role including responsibilities and requirements to the ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list

  • Add an item to the meeting agenda linking to the mail

  • Role applicants are encouraged to add their names to the agenda for consideration
• Approval of the role/team and the holder/members will be determined separately.