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The MOTU council recommended Mario Limoncello for membership in the core development team: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-September/001650.html. The board approved Mario's application and welcomed him to the core development team. |
The MOTU council recommended Mario Limoncello for membership in the core development team: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-September/001650.html. The board approved Mario's application and welcomed him to the core development team. |
October 2008 Team Reports
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Ubuntu Community Council
- Meeting 2008-10-21:
No quorum (only JamesTroup and DanielHolbach)
Is there a need to coin a new phrase for an "Ubuntero"? discussion
DanielHolbach to ping all CC members to express their opinion on the bug itself.
JamesWestby asked how best to deal with problematic people in Launchpad.
DanielHolbach asked to mail CC about it first, so we can get in touch with that person. Only talking to the Launchpad Admins will not necessarily help.
RafikOuerchefani asked for advice on ideas he has and decided to mail the CC about it out of band.
Ubuntu Technical Board
Meeting 2008-10-07
- Members present: Matt Zimmerman, Scott James Remnant
- Ubuntu-core-dev application from Mario Limonciello
The MOTU council recommended Mario Limoncello for membership in the core development team: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-September/001650.html. The board approved Mario's application and welcomed him to the core development team.
- Ubuntu-core-dev application from Harald Sitter
The MOTU council recommended Harald Sitter for membership in the core development team: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-October/001685.html. The board approved Harald's application and welcomed him to the core development team.
- Limited upload rights from Romain Francoise
- The Technical Board is considering to grant upload privileges to Romain Francoise for emacs-snapshot. The decision wass deferred due to time constraints, and it was agreed to continue this conversation in email or at the next meeting.
- cdrtools update
- We are expecting to receive a summary from Eben Moglen regarding his interpretation of the licensing terms for cdrtools, and will take next steps based on that.
Meeting 2008-10-21
- Members present: Scott James Remnant, Matt Zimmerman
- Upload rights for pre-MOTUs
- The technical board has received requests for upload privileges from developers who are not yet MOTUs. On further investigation, the cases were three:
- One developer was frustrated with sponsorship delays for updates to Hardy, and requested upload privileges in order to work around that. It was agreed that it would be better to improve the sponsorship process for stable maintenance, and Daniel Holbach will work to organize a team of developers who are especially interested in maintaining stable releases (particularly LTS).
- Another wished to sync their package from Debian, and found this process too slow as well. Daniel agreed to investigate this as well to understand the problem and see how it could be improved
- Another believed (as did their sponsor) that they would not be accepted for MOTU based on their contributions to a small number of packages in main, and that an upload ACL would be a better solution. This led to a prolonged discussion about how the MOTU council should evaluate applicants with regard to the scope of their packaging work, which it was agreed to continue by email. Matt Zimmerman will start a thread on ubuntu-devel.
- The technical board has received requests for upload privileges from developers who are not yet MOTUs. On further investigation, the cases were three:
- Reinhard Tartler asked the Technical Board for a statement of policy regarding the use of codecs potentially associated with patents. The Board has neither legal expertise nor the knowledge of the specific patents involved, and has therefore sought third-party legal advice.
- The cdrtools saga continues, with an active dialog between Eben Moglen of SFLC and Joerg Schilling of cdrtools. The outcome of this dialog is not yet clear, but if the two participants can reach agreement on the legal status of cdrtools, it will be able to be restored to the Ubuntu repositories.
Ubuntu Development Teams
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Sugar Team
- Lots of bug fixing... If you're interested in Sugar, please help test!
The latest upstream stable release is in the SugarTeam PPA for hardy
Ubuntu LoCo Teams
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Japanese Team
- Team member have written articles for following local magazines:
Software Design: "Ubuntu 8.10 先行レビュー(First Review: Ubuntu 8.10)"
The Japanese Team exhibited at the "Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall" on October 3 - 4
- The Booth had many visitors. We demonstrated Intrepid Ibex and ubuntu-mobile, and displayed an original poster.
- A seminar was titled "How to gather Ubuntu News." led by Mitsuya Shibata.
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