Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2010-04-13

Chair: Emmet Hikory
Present: Cody Somerville, Søren Hansen, Richard Johnson, Michael Bienia, Colin Watson
Apologies:  Stéphane Graber

Action Review

• persia contacts Angel Abad about his application: contact attempted

no feedback received

• complete the application of Jonathan Thomas : Confirmed as

core-dev, 4 in favour, 3 deferring

• complete the application of Matt Trudel: Deferred as MOTU, 2 in

favour, 4 deferring, 1 against

Administrative Matters

Appropriate body to handle requests for new development teams

• Interested parties should engage in the active thread on the mailing list

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-April/000184.html

Interpretation of votes

The DMB determined to use the following guidelines to accept or defer candidates by a vote of 5 in favour, 1 abstaining, 1 absent:

1. Any applicant must surpass a threshold of +4 to be confirmed
2. Any positive vote adds 1 to the vote count per individual voter
3. Any negate vote subtracts 1 from the vote count per individual voter
4. Any zero vote does not affect the vote count

Ensuring transparency of applications take to email

If an application is taken to email, the tallied votes will be posted to the devel-permissions@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list

Application Process and public notification times

• Agreed that applications should continue to have a one week public

notice peiod before being heard in a meeting

• ACTION: persia to make documentation on application notice clearer

PerPackageUploader: Krzysztof Klimonda

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KrzysztofKlimonda/TransmissionPPUApplication

• Krzysztof has been maintaining transmission for a long time now,

and was approved unanimously to be able to upload directly.  Welcome!

Select a Chair for the next meeting

• Cody Somerville will chair the 27th April meeting

Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2010-04-27

Chair: Cody Somerville
Present: Søren Hansen, Richard Johnson, Michael Bienia, Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber
Apologies:

Action Review

• persia contacts Angel Abad about his application: Dropping action for Persia to contact Angel, he will hope to catch him another time time though.

• persia to make documentation on application notice clearer: Persia will work on DMB Application Process page further if people think it's still unclear. Without feedback, he'll leave it alone.
• geser to follow up with Sylvestre Ledru and arrange for the application to be added to the meeting agenda: Done.

Administrative Matters

Accept responsibility for UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• Accept responsibility for UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation

• LINK: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/04/20/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t15:26

• ACTION: Persia to update UbuntuDevelopers/TeamDelegation to reflect DMB's responsibilities in process.

Finalise application for Leann Ogasawara

• cjwatson already granted PPU permissions to Leann but forgot to add Leann to ubuntu-dev team. This is now corrected.
• ACTION: cjwatson to create ubuntu-kernel-uploaders team owned by the DMB that will provide upload permissions to Ubuntu kernel packages.

Schedule of next meeting (held at UDS?)

• ACTION: cjwatson to schedule session at UDS for DMB meeting

PerPackageUploader: Alessio Igor Bogani

• Bogani applied for per package upload permissions for linux-rt and rt-tests.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlessioIgorBogani/linux-rtPPUApplication

• Bogani's application was denied.

• ACTION: Persia to follow up with TheMuso re: Bogani's application.

PerPackageUploader: Ara Pulido

• Pulido applied for per package upload permissions for ldtp, mago and ubuntu-qa-tools.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AraPulido/PerPackageUploadApplication

• Pulido's application was approved.

PerPackageUploader: Rodrigo Moya

• Moya applied for per package upload permissions for couchdb-glib, evolution-couchdb, libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, tomboy, and ubuntuone-client.

• LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RodrigoMoya/PerPackageUploadApplication

• The DMB split this application into three separate applications:
  • couchdb-glib, and evolution-couchdb
  • libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, and ubuntuone-client
  • tomboy
• Moya's application for couchdb-glib, and evolution-couchdb was approved.
• Moya's application for libubuntuone, rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store, and ubuntuone-client deferred pending e-mail vote by Hansen and Graber. Application requires two votes to reach approval threshold.
• Moya's application for tomboy deferred pending e-mail vote by Hansen and Graber. Application requires one vote to reach approval threshold.

UbuntuCoreDeveloper: Brandon Holtsclaw

• Holtsclaw applied for renewal of his Ubuntu Core Developer membership.

• LINK: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrandonHoltsclaw

• Holtsclaw's application was accepted.

Select a Chair for the next meeting

• Michael Bienia will chair the 11th May meeting.

Irc Council Meeting, 10 April 2010

• Election of a chairman for the IRCC as per the approved charrter
  • jussi01 to serve as IRCC chairman per the requirement in the IRCC Charter
• Request: Make the kubuntu-council team ops for all kubuntu channels
  • Agree to add the Kubuntu Council team as an admin of all the kubuntu channel op teams on LP. Note which members of the council already have OP access and in which channels. Add all Kubuntu Council members as OPs in the channels (+votiArf). Transition to using the script to manage this once it is done.
  • jussi01 will make the necessary changes on LP and on IRC

IRC Council meeting, 25 April 2010

• New Topic: #ubuntu-release-party access list
  • IDEA received from Ikonia: I would suggest adding the core channel operators to the list and removing the membership cloak access
  • VOTE: Add the core channel operators to the list (#ubuntu-ops +V list) and removing the membership cloak access.
    • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3
• New Topic: Consider deactivating/re-purposing the ~ubuntu-irc team on launchpad
  • IDEA received from Nhandler: As for ~ubuntu-irc, I haven't seen any good ideas on how to re-purpose it right now, so I would propose removing all members, making it restricted, and adjusting the description to "disable" it for now
  • VOTE: Change the description of ~ubuntu-irc to reflect its current state of disuse, think about the future use of it..
    • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3
• New Topic: Create policy on external logging of channels (ircanswers.com)
  • VOTE: Public log bots be allowed with a set of conditions and list of bots documented on a wiki page.
    • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3

Laura chaired the meeting, and we used mootbot again. We discussed our agenda items,and asked Efrain Valles who had been dealing with Ubuntu El Salvador for a update. Next agenda item was Leadership CoC not given to LoCo Leads this was brought to our attention via a bug and we have two outcomes from the meeting:

1. LoCo council to review the terminology and better define the word team and report back

2. Look for more input from the loco contact list on "signing the Leadership CoC" which is what this was all about.

Finally the last agenda item was about the new LoCo Health check which is being run on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams

Mexico Team wasn't present and this will be taken to email for follow up Brazilian LoCo was asked to come back with a more detailed wiki page for their application.

It was a marathon meeting which lasted 3 hours so thanks to all those who came and took part! you ROCK!

"Approvals"

• North Carolina LoCo was approved

• Vietnamese LoCo was approved

"Re-Approvals"

• Finland LoCo

• Catalan LoCo

• DC LoCo

• Denmark LoCo

• Russian LoCo

• Chilean LoCo

• German LoCo

• Technical Board meeting, 2010-04-06
  • Attendees: Kees Cook (chair), Martin Pitt, Matt Zimmerman, Scott James Remnant, Colin Watson, Mark Shuttleworth
  • Guests: Jonathan Riddell, Scott Kitterman, James Westby, Emmet Hikory
  • Action review:

    • https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy upstream is http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy/Draft; Riddell to get agreement with KDE on point release criteria

      • [ACTION] Riddell and ScottK to sort next steps of KDE Updates process
    • sabdfl to write up minutes from 2010-03-09 meeting, or delegate
      • [ACTION] cjwatson to write up 2010-03-09 meeting minutes
  • Community bugs
    • None
  • 10.10 technical direction
    • [ACTION] pitti to kick off post-mortem of sync-from-testing on u-devel@
  • Check on issue with libfaac (bug 374900)
    • [ACTION] cjwatson to drive libfaac issue to conclusion
  • Review progress of DMB
    • things going well, robust discussion, some questions of mechanics, but nothing outstanding
  • Chair for next meeting: Matt Zimmerman
• Technical Board meeting, 2010-04-20
  • Attendees: Matt Zimmerman (chair), Martin Pitt, Kees Cook, Mark Shuttleworth
  • Guests: Jo Shields
  • Action review:
    • pitti to kick off post-mortem of sync-from-testing on u-devel@
      • Done
    • Riddell and ScottK to sort next steps of KDE Updates process
      • Outstanding
    • cjwatson to write up 2010-03-09 meeting minutes
      • Outstanding
    • cjwatson to drive libfaac issue to conclusion
      • Outstanding
  • autopano-sift patent allegation (Jo Shields)

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-March/000174.html

    • Per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PatentPolicy the concern has been noted, and no action is deemed necessary at the present time

  • Chair for next meeting: Martin Pitt

• Patch Day Lite held on April 24th

• With feedback from Patch Day Lite, documentation reworked.

  • Review Guide moved to separate page with more information added.

  • New Getting Started page.

• Dave Walker, Alessio Treglia, Lorenzo De Liso, and Mathieu Trudel joined the team.

• Work on Review Overview started.

• Review Lead recruitment for upcoming PatchDay.

Xubuntu team report for April, 2010

Bug Triage

• Many bugs have been triaged and fixed this month.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• We tested and released Lucid Lynx Beta 2

• Cody reported and committed fix for LP #566913 ('Clicking 'New Login' reports no longer implemented by gdmflexiserver').

Website & Marketing

• Cody patched xubuntu.org up to the latest security release for Drupal.
• Cody upgraded the views module used by xubuntu.org to the latest version.

Artwork

Community

Documentation

• April 31: Talk about Ubuntu & Free Software in Ribadesella. http://acurti.es/Kke

• April 10: "Academy of the Asturian Language" migrates to Ubuntu: Links: Ubuntu Fridge, LNE, Asturnews.

• April 1st: LoCo irc meeting. Choosing T-shirt Logo for Lucid release party.

• April 15th: 10 new installations of Ubuntu at IES Torre Vicens Secondary School in Lleida.

• April 16th: LoCo irc meeting. Lucid Lynx release party conferences.

• April 17th: Ubuntu conference and install party in Pineda de Mar.

• April 20th: LoCo Reapproval meeting done. Catalan LoCo Team is reapproved.

• April 23rd: Two conferences at the St. Pere Chanel Secondary School in Malgrat de Mar about "Computers, internet and free software in the nowadays society".
• April 23rd: Conference about free software, Caliu LUG and Ubuntu at IES Eugeni d'Ors Secondary School, in Vilafranca del Penedès.

• Ubuntu Colombia is preparing the reactivation of the Hacklabs Link

• Ubuntu Colombia was participating on Flisol Colombia on 24 of April in many cities !! Link

  • Bogotá: 104 machines were installed and Ubuntu was on 64 of this!! Link Photos

  • Villavicencio: 24 installations, 14 with Ubuntu. Link Photos

  • Cúcuta and Pamplona: Conferences and Installations. Link Photos

  • Ibagué: Conferences and Installations. Link Photos

• Release parties of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on Colombia are being held! Link

  • Bogotá: Great reunion, presentation of new features of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and new look! Link Photos

• Announce: Migration of Ubuntu Colombia forums to UbuntuES forums. Link

• Launch of free libraries project in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Pictures Here

• We FLISoL 2010 in Santo Domingo, and Lago Agrio Tena

  Flisol 2010 Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Flisol 2010 Tena - Oriente Ecuatoriano

• Meeting in Milagro-Ecuador with Milagro Linux 2010. Milagro Linux 2010

• Reunion with the Ecuadorian government and ministry of social projects MCPEC

• April 15 Ubuntu-hn visited UNAH-VS

• April 17 Meeting of the Local Council

• April 23 FLISOL

• April 27 Ubuntu hn at The First Symposium of Technological Advances

• New Logo of Ubuntu Hondudras

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 21st April 2010.

• We ran OSSBarcamp on the 17th of April. Great event. Loads of great open source people. Write up here , Some photos here.

• We had a lively Ubuntu Hour on the 28th of April at 6pm at the Trinity Capital Hotel bar.

• Moshe will be the chairman for the IRC meetings.

• The forum from now on is under the CC-BY-SA ver. 3 license.

• We have a new contact man: Dor Dankner (Ddorda). Moshe is the new reporter for the team reports.

• We are still working on integrating the CoC back to the community.

• The new Ops in our chat are: Moshe, Shphongle and Shimi810.

• If we will have donations it will go to Hamakor NPO (non-profit org.) so there won't be only one person that will get the money.
• we had "Ubuntu on the grass" meeting at 29/04 at park hayarkon, Tel Aviv.
• We had release party on 29/4.

• Ubuntu Colombia is preparing the reactivation of the Hacklabs Link

• Ubuntu Colombia was participating on Flisol Colombia on 24 of April in many cities !! Link

  • Bogotá: 104 machines were installed and Ubuntu was on 64 of this!! Link Photos

  • Villavicencio: 24 installations, 14 with Ubuntu. Link Photos

  • Cúcuta and Pamplona: Conferences and Installations. Link Photos

  • Ibagué: Conferences and Installations. Link Photos

• Release parties of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on Colombia are being held! Link

  • Bogotá: Great reunion, presentation of new features of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and new look! Link Photos

• Announce: Migration of Ubuntu Colombia forums to UbuntuES forums. Link

• 14 apr:

  • Presenting the Ubuntu Nicaraguan LoCo Team at American College event wiki presentation in odp and pdf.

• 16 apr:

  • Pizzabash 1.4 event wiki.

• 24 apr:

  • Participated in the biggest installfest of latinamerica, in the venues of Managua pics and Granada pics.

• Created a small facebook application to promote Lucid release using countdown banners: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-countdown-banner-for-your.html

• Participation to Linux and Certification Day at the "Institut Supérieur d'Informatique" of Mahdia.

  • Report : http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/04/linux-certification-day-isi-mahdia

  • Photo album : http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/v/isima1004/

• Organisation of the Free Software Day at the "Ecole Polytechnique Privée" of Sousse.

  • Photo album : http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/v/Polytec1004/

• IRC meetings on April 4th and April 18th to recap our Global Jam participation and plan 10.04 release events.

• We began our celebration of Ubuntu 10.04's release with release parties in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Walnut Creek.

• Chicago Team Monthly IRC Meeting 2010-04-05

• Order a box of Lucid CDs from shipit to give away at our upcoming events

• April 6th Meeting, we decided officially to merge back to only the standards lists.ubuntu.com mailing list. For several years now we have been using both Launchpad ML and the Standard List. So far we have set the Standard List as default, and mailed the team asking those that are on the LP ML only to move themselves over to the Standard List. June 1st is the target date, and after that the ML admin/moderator will move the rest over manually.

• April 20th, Announced the Lucid Release Party, which was hosted at the Pizza Gallery Viera/Melbourne Area. Discussed adding events to the LoCo Directory, which is an amazing resource for LoCo Teams. http://loco.ubuntu.com

The Lucid Release Party for Viera/Melbourne Area took place on the evening of the 29th in the Avenues Plaza Viera. Pizza Gallery was a dynamite place to hold this. We had 12 attendees, and everyone had a great time. 1 upgrade and 2 installs were performed. We discussed the changes found within Lucid. Everyone was commenting on the peppiness of Lucid, and really enjoyed the new release! Thanks to all the developers and contributors for all of your hard work!!

• April Meetings

  • April 1, 2010

  • April 8, 2010

  • April 15, 2010

  • April 22, 2010

  • April 29, 2010

• Lucid Lynx Release Party

.:Events:.

• 4-1 7pm - 9pm presentation on open source storage solutions Barnes and Noble @ RIT

• 4-3 8am - 11pm NY State Ubuntu LoCo gave presentations and handed out CDs BarCamp RIT 5

• 4-15 7pm - 9pm presentation on OSSEC Golisano Building RIT

• 4-17 12pm - 4pm Linux workshop with Interlock covering Linux storage solutions, OSSEC and any other topics that attendees ask for Interlock Rochester

.:Meetings:.

• 4-20 9pm - 10pm team meeting (IRC)

Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team

• Held two LoCo team IRC meetings to finalize plans on LoCo Team Approval

  • April 1st Meeting

  • April 15th Meeting

• NC LoCo Team wiki pages reorg in prep for LoCo Team Approval

• NC LoCo Team is Approved!

• NC Team held a release party in Raleigh on April 29, 2010
• NC Team held a release party in Winston-Salem on April 29, 2010

• held a meeting to discuss Issues with event participation at the National Free Software Summit (Congreso Nacional de Software Libre).
  • Decided not to participate directly to avoid conflict with organizers with regards ethical questioning.

• Organized first Ubuntu Hour, a recurring event every 3rd saturday. You can check effie-jayx's blog post

• Team packaged Venezuelan twitter Client TURPIAL and enabled PPA for it.

• Organizing a Release Party in Maracaibo, Fiesta Lucida in Santa Lucia

• Held the first regular meeting in a while, meeting covered, design for the team, redesign for the website, Colaboration for FLISOL and more, you can check minutes here.

• Participating in FLISOL nation wide, for info check http://www.flisol.org.ve, pictures Ricardo Fernandez's Set Eduar Lucena's Set Efrain Valles's Set David Rondon's Set

  We send a representative from our Team to the Country Cuba; Juan Carlos Navarro (of Regional Team Carabobo).Pictures

• Conclude our Ubuntu Beginners Team Council and Focus Group Leader Elections
  • Ubuntu beginners Council:

    • Charles Profitt cprofitt

    • Duane Hinnen duanedesign

    • Iain Bucław ibuclaw

    • Nathan Handler nhandler

    • Paul Tagliamonte Paultag

  • Ubuntu Beginners Focus Groups Leaders:

    • Silver Fox => IRC Focus Group Leader

      • Silver Fox is away for some time for personal reasons, Pablo Rubianes and Steve Woodruff will be leading the IRC Focus Group in the interim.

    • Charles Profitt => Security Focus Group Leader

    • Bodsda => Development Focus Group Leader

    • Zach Kriesse => Wiki Focus Group Leader

    • Nigel Babu => Education Focus Group Leader

    • Silver Fox => Young New Users Focus Group Leader

    • Duane Hinnen => Launchpad Focus Group Leader

• The council is currently testing a new process for joining the Ubuntu Beginners Team.

• Daniel Holbach led Fixing small bugs in Ubuntu

• Benjamin Drung led How to package XUL extensions

• James Westby led Fixing an Ubuntu bug with bzr

• Michael Bienia led Q&A session about the DMB work

• Organize Ubuntu Open Week

• Begin planning the next Ubuntu User Day