On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 04:26:49PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Iain Lane [2013-07-22 21:07 +0100]: > > The Developer Membership Board (DMB) has developed a proposal to allow for > > the > > granting of per-package upload rights to individuals without the (currently > > implicit) granting of Ubuntu membership. The intention is to lower the > > barrier > > to entry as we would no longer need to assess against the "significant and > > sustained contribution" threshold, which is commonly understood to mean six > > months of active participation in the Ubuntu community. We'll be able, for > > example, to give greater weight to upstream contributions or to > > participation > > in other distributions (essentially, to concentrate on technical skill). > > It makes sense to decouple membership from PPA for those "occasional > fix" types, i. e. what we intend to by letting DDs who ask for it > upload their packages to Ubuntu. Either these people are satisfied > with that, or this could be a means to get said credentials for > "sustained contributions" and eventually reach ~u-member status. > > +1 on this provided that memberships have to be regularly renewed and > that CoC still needs to be signed, but both of these points have > already been discussed in the thread and agreed upon.
I'm also +1 on this with similar provisos; I've felt that our barrier to entry could use a little bit of adjusting downwards for a while now, and this seems like a sensible step. All of the concerns I can think of have already been brought up in this thread and addressed. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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