Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Stéphane Graber
On 10/06/2011 03:31 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thursday, October 06, 2011 08:13:21 PM Michael Bienia wrote: UCD is in line with the other membership granting councils: - Kubuntu council -> ~kubuntu-members - Edubuntu council -> ~edubuntu-members - Forum council -> ~ubuntu-forum-members - I

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:34:32 AM Steve Langasek wrote: > Do the other councils refer to themselves as "Kubuntu members" / "Forum > members"? Or do they generally use the title "Ubuntu Members"? I'm a member of the Kubuntu Council, so one of the things I do is evaluate Kubuntu membership

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 08:13:21 PM Michael Bienia wrote: > UCD is in line with the other membership granting councils: > - Kubuntu council -> ~kubuntu-members > - Edubuntu council -> ~edubuntu-members > - Forum council -> ~ubuntu-forum-members > - IRC council -> ~ubuntu-irc-members > Only ~u

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:13:21PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > UCD dates back to the time when MOTU Council was granted the right to > grant Ubuntu membership. The idea for a subteam comes from Mark [1,2] > when it was discussed how the membership granting gets implemented for > the MC. > UCD c

Kubuntu Documentation

2011-10-06 Thread David Wonderly
Greetings everyone. I wanted to thank everyone who worked on the Kubuntu Docs for 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Thanks to your dedication and hard work we not only finished on time but, we also got the translations worked on and finished too! Thank you all so much! So, with all of that said, I would

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2011-10-06 12:04:11 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:25, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > > > > Ubuntu Member: a recognized member of the Ubuntu community > > > > Ubuntu Developer: a Ubuntu Member who obtained their recognition through > > contributing software development (patche

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Luke Faraone
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:25, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > > Ubuntu Member: a recognized member of the Ubuntu community > > Ubuntu Developer: a Ubuntu Member who obtained their recognition through > contributing software development (patches, sponsored packages, whatever) > I'm not sure there's a nee

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew East
On 5 October 2011 16:35, Scott Kitterman wrote: > This a problem I believe.  I've thought about it and I think most any name we > could come up with is problematic.  There are a number of ways people get > membership and we don't generally give them a special name.  My proposal is > rename Ubuntu

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Stephen M. Webb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2011 02:34 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > > We should probably change one of "Ubuntu Contributing Developers" and > "Ubuntu Developers" to reduce confusion - maybe "Ubuntu Developers" > should be renamed to "Ubuntu Uploading Developers", and

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:03:26 AM Matthias Klose wrote: > On 10/05/2011 10:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:30:22 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > >> To take an example I think porting universe GNOME2 applets to GNOME3 > >> wouldn't be a good use of our time,

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 08:34:59 AM David Henningsson wrote: > On 10/05/2011 12:57 PM, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Am 05.10.2011 12:40, schrieb Iain Lane: > >> Please visit the page > >> > >>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers#Ubuntu_Contributing_Dev > >>elopers>>

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 03:27:13 PM Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > > > You might not ever hear about it, but every time something is > > > removed you are potentially let

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > > You might not ever hear about it, but every time something is > > removed you are potentially letting people down. > > Right, but every time an annoying but in a sof

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 06 octobre 2011 à 13:28 +0100, Iain Lane a écrit : > You > might not ever hear about it, but every time something is removed you > are potentially letting people down. Right, but every time an annoying but in a software that 90% of our users run is not fixed because the time has been spe

Re: Reevaluating the "Ubuntu Contributing Developer" status

2011-10-06 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:34 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > I think one source of confusion is that "Ubuntu Contributing Developers" is > not a subset of "Ubuntu Developers": > > According to the link above, "Ubuntu Developers /.../ are granted direct > upload to the Ubuntu archive, according to th

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:30:22PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 16:08 +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > > During the oneiric development cycle we had syncs of library packages > > from > > experimental, introducing new sonames, and changing APIs in a w

Patch pilot report: 2011-10-06

2011-10-06 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, these are the bits I got through today: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkguitune/+bug/850791 - unsubscribed sponsors, upload not necessary for oneiric https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gramps/+bug/864095 - sync request was ACKed already, unsubscribing spons

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > […] > > > > All three cases have in common that the packages were left alone for > > > > month

preparing the opening of the P-series

2011-10-06 Thread Matthias Klose
While Oneiric is not yet released, it's time to prepare packages for the opening of the P-series. Please add to the lists at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/P-SeriesOpening what packages to prepare at the beginning of the release cycle, and what to avoid. When adding to this list, please see it as a c

Re: proposal do disallow syncs of library packages from experimental without approval

2011-10-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 10/05/2011 10:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:30:22 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> To take an example I think porting universe GNOME2 applets to GNOME3 >> wouldn't be a good use of our time, we better spend the resources we >> have making sure our current desktop