Robie Basak has proposed merging ~racb/ubuntu-governance-docs:add-dmb-selection-process-policy into ubuntu-governance-docs:main.
Requested reviews: Thomas Ward (teward) Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) Sebastien Bacher (seb128) For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~racb/ubuntu-governance-docs/+git/ubuntu-governance-docs/+merge/487297 As discussed in yesterday's TB meeting. The decision is made; what remains is the copyediting of the documentation to review here please. -- Your team Ubuntu Technical Board is subscribed to branch ubuntu-governance-docs:main.
diff --git a/docs/policy/dmb-selection-process.md b/docs/policy/dmb-selection-process.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..134806c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/policy/dmb-selection-process.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# DMB Selection Process + +The Developer Membership Board is responsible for reviewing and +approving new Ubuntu developers. + +The Developer Membership Board comprises seven seats. Seats are +appointed by the Technical Board asynchronously as required. + +When the DMB needs members, the TB will ask for suitably qualified +volunteers to apply privately. + +Volunteers must be Ubuntu Core Developers or MOTU[^1], and should be well +qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when to +entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu +membership status. + +Volunteers must expect to be able to attend the majority of DMB +meetings. Currently these take place on IRC, are scheduled on alternate +Mondays with each meeting alternating between 1600 UTC and 1900 UTC, and +last around an hour. Meeting times can be negotiated and adjusted by +board members as needed. + +The TB reserves their option to exclude particular volunteers +(privately), but this should only happen under exceptional +circumstances. + +The TB announces new appointments which can therefore happen at any +time. + +We'd like DMB members to commit to a one year minimum, but DMB members +can resign at any time. + +When a member's term is nearing its end, Launchpad will ask them if they +wish to renew, and they can renew their term directly on Launchpad by +themselves. By doing so, they are affirming that they expect to +participate for a further year. + +If a member wishes to stand down, they can leave the Launchpad team or +wait for their Launchpad team membership to lapse. + +As long as there are routinely fewer volunteers than seats, this process +will continue. Should the situation change, the TB will adjust the +process accordingly, which may include moving to the election-based +appointment model we had used previously. + +[^1]: [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2020-January/002481.html](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2020-January/002481.html) diff --git a/docs/policy/index.md b/docs/policy/index.md index b1043a2..bc44a1e 100644 --- a/docs/policy/index.md +++ b/docs/policy/index.md @@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ :maxdepth: 1 3rd-party software sources included by Ubuntu <3rd-party-software-sources> +DMB selection process <dmb-selection-process> ```
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