new package upload policy question

2017-08-18 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Howdy MOTU friends! I'm seeking clarification on an Ubuntu policy, as it relates to MOTU. My long standing interpretation of MOTU policies is that all Ubuntu MOTUs are trusted to upload new packages to Ubuntu Universe. Those uploads are processed (accepted, rejected) by the Ubuntu Archive

Re: Removing XULRunner from oneiric - call for help

2011-06-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
of the week, I will assume that nobody cares about the remaining packages and will start filing removal requests for them. Please don't remove mongodb, per above ;-) Thanks, -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Core Developer -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Developer Application Criteria - Was Re: New Application processes

2009-01-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: For improving the process just for the skill-level consideration, what I would like to see is sort of a self-directed exercise workbook, with sets of packaging, bug triage, testing, documentation, etc. tasks. For

Re: Developer Application Criteria - Was Re: New Application processes

2009-01-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: I completely agree. MOTU and core-dev membership is a combination of * technical knowledge [for which two key points apply: arbitrary have-done-X metrics don't assess any more reliably than peer assessment of the

Re: Developer Application Criteria - Was Re: New Application processes

2009-01-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jordan Mantha jordan.man...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that's necessarily a logical conclusion. You're saying that if the +1/-1 of a MOTU Council member is based on a subjective decision that they can't use objective data in making that decision. That is

Re: New Application processes

2009-01-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com wrote: We feel that these changes are going to be a notable improvement and we would like to hear your thoughts on them, so we can move to the new format real soon now. Hi Daniel (and MOTU Council)- Thank you very much

Re: motu-release will revert libgems-ruby to the old state.

2008-09-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Mathias Gug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:04:57PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: No, I mean that it's not a policy violation to try to add the gem binary path to PATH on a best effort basis because packages will continue to work whether PATH

Re: Considering component-specific work when reviewing applications

2008-08-19 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008, either Michael Bienia or Reinhard Tartler wrote: Perhaps it was not so well communicated in the past else there wouldn't be the confusion leading to that mail. At that time I thought that one had to be a MOTU before one could apply for core-dev. According to the diagram

Re: A bug checklist

2008-06-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Brian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Checklist Excellent information there, Brian. Two comments. First, I'd suggest that Launchpad's Help tab in the top left corner of bug pages point to this wiki page (perhaps among others