On 2012-04-19 16:44:48 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
Hello,
> This team has been existing for as long as Ubuntu has been around and
> one thing we've been doing since the early days is: being there for new
> contributors and bringing them into the fold. In my mind this is (among
> many others of course) the most important thing MOTU has contributed to
> Ubuntu.
>
> Not limited to my personal assessment above, I'd still like to hear from
> you (no matter if you're a MOTU old-timer or a new contributor) is what
> do you feel we do well and what do you feel we should change?
At much as I don't like the idea myself (being a long-time MOTU and like
to keep MOTU as tradition), but perhaps it gets slowly time to
"dissolve" MOTU (or parts of it like lists or IRC channel) and merge it
into the more general dev "resources". I'm not saying that MOTU should
stop doing what it is doing, but to continue doing it in those "bigger"
teams. This moves shouldn't necessarily happen during quantal but
perhaps during the r-series or s-series if the trend of the last
series continues (less fresh MOTUS, existing MOTUs get sucked up into RL
or other tasks).
- the MOTU IRC channel:
The traffic is much lower than compared to a couple years before (when
I joined MOTU). Currently the few traffic is mostly only two
categories:
- development release related
This traffic could move to #ubuntu-devel which isn't high-traffic
anymore either.
- packaging questions
As those questions are currently split between #ubuntu-motu and
#ubuntu-packaging (and sometimes happening in both channels at the
same time), it would be good to merge this traffic into one channel
(#ubuntu-packaging).
- the MOTU mailing list:
The list is very low traffic and sort of dieing. There are only really
a few really MOTU-related topics. The other mails are either requests
for packaging new versions or bug reports. Both should be better filed
as bugs and those mails are seldom answered or result in any tasks
performed.
The few really MOTU-related traffic could move to the ubuntu-devel
mailing list (if it isn't already CCed there).
- the MOTU LP team
This should be kept as it's still performing its function and will so
for the forseeable future. Although ArchiveReorg tried to merge it
into core-dev, this didn't happen and I don't expect that the status
of MOTU will change very soon (during r-, q- or s-series).
I think we have to be realistic: the good times of MOTU are past, MOTU
won't die in the next 3 Ubuntu releases, but I don't expect that MOTU
gets a flood of new MOTUs either.
IMHO the traffic on the IRC channel and mailing list don't warrant to be
seperated anymore, it should be about time to think into merging them
into more general channels or lists.
Michael
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