Members having access to all venues of contribution was not a result of legacy, it was a conscious decision made at the time we introduced source code version control. We found that we trust all members to act in the best interest of the project and work towards the same goal.
It is truly a sad day that members of Kubuntu cannot be trusted anymore. I always looked with fondness at the fact that membership actually meant something more than been-around-long-enough. :( On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the early days of Kubuntu, all the Kubuntu Members were packagers > and developers. Since the community has grown, we now have some > Kubuntu Members who are not packagers, developers or coders. Yet one > of the privileges of Kubuntu Membership has long been the right to > commit changes to our packaging and packages. > > The Kubuntu Council, after extensive discussion which you can read in > the archives of our list on our Launchpad page [1], has updated our > Kubuntu Policies [2] and Launchpad. > > Since packagers and developers are already members of the teams which > have the permissions to commit, change or upload as needed, this > should have no effect on Kubuntu Members, but it will improve the > security of our code and packages on LP. > > Valorie, for the Kubuntu Council > > 1. https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council > 2. https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/Policies > > -- > http://about.me/valoriez > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
