On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:28:14PM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > While trying to use a distribution object for the Ensemble Principia > distribution, I've hit some rusty parts of the Launchpad code. > > We have two celebrities that are used for permission checking and I don't > think they are needed (plus it limits the use of distributions outside of the > Ubuntu case). > > They are: > > * Ubuntu Branches. Only members of that team can set official package branch > link. > > * Ubuntu Techboard. Only members of that team can manage archive permissions. > > I'd like to remove both celebrities and make the distribution owner the team > in charge for both of these things. In Ubuntu's case, the techboard team is > the distribution owner. > > For official package branch, this change would affect James Westby as he's > the > only member of ubuntu branches that is not part of the technical board. > > Maybe what's needed is to fix > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/365098 > and allow anyone who can upload the package to set the official link. The > question then becomes, do we need to fix that bug before proceeding (in other > word, would there be unwanted fall-outs from restricting this to the current > distribution owners.) > > Eagerly awaiting your comments.
No additional concerns have come up beyond what James Westby already said. -- - mdz -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel