17:06:33 #startmeeting 17:06:33 Meeting started Thu Jul 5 17:06:33 2012 UTC. The chair is czajkowski. 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They are very much so, but they also have their costs. 17:25:23 yeah, it should probably be the developer advisory board that follows up on the PPA people 17:25:24 I'm frequently amazed by the number of PPAs people use. There must be people there worth attracting 17:25:36 ScottK: Distro work requires sustainable contribution. PPA allow to just do one thing and then forget about it. 17:25:41 I rarely use PPAs 17:25:42 tumbleweed: indeed! 17:25:47 so many people use them 17:26:05 bdrung: well, no, people can do one off distro contributions as well if it suits their need 17:26:21 upload rights require sustained contribution 17:26:45 blog post like http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/how-to-upgrade-to-the-latest-vlc-release-in-ubuntu-12-04 do not help 17:27:31 right, well, I didn't see a backport request for vlc 2.0.2 :) 17:27:41 micahg: we are more interested in sustained contribution if someone wants to get a new package in the archive 17:28:07 bdrung: sure, but I think a lot of PPAs are just the newest version of foo in the archiv 17:28:07 micahg: i want 2.0.2 in precise-security or -updates 17:28:29 bdrung: that probably won't happen unless you go for an MRE (but that's for another discussion) 17:28:44 MRE? 17:28:51 MicroRelease Exception 17:28:51 Micro Release Exception. 17:29:14 ralsina: any ideas on how to help a 11.10 user who is showing this in the syncdaemon log: ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.StorageClient - INFO - Connection lost, reason: [Failure instance: Traceback (failure with no frames): : [('SSL routines', 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')] 17:29:23 so, back to the CC, we were wondering about the 6 month requirement for membership with regard to contributing developer 17:29:27 so moving back to the DMB checkup, is there anything else you wish to say 17:29:30 joshuahoover: wrong channel! 17:29:31 joshuahoover: this is a meeting channel :) 17:29:50 czajkowski, micahg: sorry about that! 17:30:17 micahg: do you want to increase or decrease it or what is the issue? 17:30:21 joshuahoover: dobey's symlink trick? 17:30:26 * beuno slaps ralsina 17:30:37 beuno: oops 17:30:44 czajkowski: well, basically, is it a hard requirement or is it just a nice to have 17:30:50 micahg: Isn't that more of a guidelane than a rule? 17:30:59 ScottK: that's what we're asking :) 17:31:24 (Speaking as a Kubuntu Council member who decides such stuff I've always thought it was a guideline) 17:31:25 micahg: well has it helped or do you think your numbers would be higher if it were reduced or removed? 17:31:45 czajkowski: to be honest, we haven't had many applicants going for that 17:32:23 ScottK: we do treat it as a guideline. But there are times when there is very little sustained contribution, but PPU still seems like a reasonable thing to grant 17:32:36 micahg: can you elaborate ? 17:32:55 where is the requirement for six months listed? 17:32:55 czajkowski: we don't get a lot of applicants for dev membership without upload rights 17:33:02 tumbleweed: Personally I very uncomfortable with non-members being Ubuntu developers. 17:33:28 I also think significant and sustained are important parts of the requirement. 17:33:33 ScottK: so, I take it you don't like the DM process? 17:33:59 micahg: I'd feel better if PPU weren't part of ubuntu-dev. 17:34:14 ScottK: which would make them not members 17:34:33 cprofitt: on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership, it says that it's rare for an application to be accepted with < 6 months of contributions 17:34:47 Right, don't make them members without significant and sustained contributions. 17:34:52 ScottK: so would I :), that's the second point I wanted to bring up, but the DMB is still trying to find consensus on 17:35:22 micahg: how long does it take to get upload rights? 17:35:36 I think having them not necessarily be ubuntu-dev/members makes PPU more like DM. 17:36:10 cprofitt: that depends on the second point which I wanted to bring up of decoupling upload rights from membership 17:36:26 micahg: I would think that getting several sponsored uploads would take a while... is it frequent that a person accomplishes this under six months? 17:36:40 cprofitt: it can be done in a matter of weeks 17:36:52 err..several sponsored uploads 17:37:07 If one is already a DD, it could (technically) be very fast. 17:37:07 to be honest I am more concerned with sustained activity than anything 17:37:32 ScottK: in that case, granting membership is more straightforward, I think 17:37:33 but upload rights require good working knowledge of what's being applied for, that can be either a short time or a long one depending on the person 17:37:44 I think we want to avoid a person who is really excited about 'package x' gets several uploads done... goes for membership and then loses the momentum 17:38:07 but generally, we want to see someone go through an entire dev cycle (6 months) to see how the freeze schedule works 17:38:13 tumbleweed: I disagree. I think granting upload rights for packages they maintain is pretty straightforward. I don't think that also means membership is straightforward. 17:38:23 I agree there may be situations that merit things moving faster 17:39:34 ScottK: that's where decoupled upload rights and membership is a benefit 17:39:42 yes. 17:39:49 (for PPU) 17:40:21 tumbleweed: micahg Laney is there anything you want to follow up post this meeting as we do seem to have gone off track here from the check up 17:40:26 ScottK: yes. It does depend on the situation. I also recall debian people who care about their packages in Ubuntu and fix the bugs in debian, so there are few uploads but clear development-related involvement in our community 17:40:29 the question is: are we allowed to grant PPU without membership? 17:40:34 what needs to be followed up on and posisbly reviewed 17:41:02 Sorry I forgot to pay attention as I was on the phone to the stupid gas company sorting out readings 17:41:15 * Laney grumbles 17:42:24 bdrung: I suspect that's a TB question, but I'm not sure. 17:42:31 do we have a resolution? 17:42:35 I think membership is a CC thing. 17:42:58 I've come around to kind of liking the idea of decoupling it. People can apply for both simultaneously if they want. 17:43:10 exactly 17:43:11 so 17:43:19 conceptually 17:43:24 would we want casual contributors? 17:43:31 want for what? 17:43:35 Laney: core-dev, MOTU should infer membership 17:43:38 as a healthy project 17:43:41 Laney: micahg: ScottK: 17:43:41 bdrung: yes 17:43:44 bdrung: yes 17:43:49 beuno: sustained casual contributors seem to be candidates fro membership 17:43:55 drive-by, not so much 17:43:56 right 17:43:57 beuno: of course, that's what the sponsorship process is for 17:44:02 I think you folks should discuss this and arrange to meet with the CC again about this issue 17:44:15 if they are sustained, then the qualify for membership 17:44:20 I think you should tell us if we're allowed to decouple it in principle and then we don't need to come back 17:44:28 +1 17:44:29 I think you should formulate a desired outcome and plan to achieve it and then have the CC take a look at it 17:44:43 there appears to be a great deal of depth in this topic 17:44:59 I think the plan is very straightforward: Make PPU not imply membership 17:45:02 membership requires sustained contribution, upload rights require proficiency 17:45:13 It would make it easier to let us grant people PPU 17:45:21 but not sustained? 17:45:31 currently we evaluate the PPU rights, and the membership goes along for free. But we don't think that's fair on the other members who had to prove themselves 17:45:32 just enough for us to be convinced that they know what they're doing 17:45:42 beuno: not necessarily (Debian Developers are the easiest example) 17:46:17 can we move to any other topics you have? 17:46:30 those 2 were it AIUI 17:46:30 so, lets pick this up again 17:46:35 So what we'd do is remove ~ubuntumembers from ~ubuntu-dev 17:46:36 schedule it 17:46:39 err, the other way around 17:46:57 I think it's absolutely worth discussing, if you guys feel it would help 17:47:01 Or, think about whether these people should be in ubuntu-dev at all. 17:47:07 just need to weigh in long-term effects a bit more 17:47:17 Laney: well, it's a little more complicated than that 17:47:30 Maybe /that/ is a question for the TB. 17:47:38 beuno: perhaps email as our schedule is done for a few weeks 17:47:44 I don't know of any other pressing questions from our side 17:48:03 sure, email works 17:48:10 I think we should follow this up after the meeting via email to discuss this further 17:48:28 #action beuno to start a thread with the DMB and CC to discuss the topics that have come from todays meeting 17:48:28 * meetingology beuno to start a thread with the DMB and CC to discuss the topics that have come from todays meeting 17:48:32 :) 17:48:43 look at that, I win a task! :) 17:48:48 well played 17:49:02 hey I got landed with chairing I feel the need to share the love! 17:49:06 right moving on 17:49:14 #topic Juju Governance 17:49:19 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda/talk 17:49:25 jcastro: ping 17:49:31 hi 17:49:58 really that link isn't helpful 17:50:20 https://juju.ubuntu.com/CharmReviewBoard 17:50:21 sorry I didn't know how to link the header 17:50:39 it's the top paragraph but it's not really as important as the link beuno just posted 17:50:45 #link https://juju.ubuntu.com/CharmReviewBoard 17:51:27 thanks btw, Laney, micahg, tumbleweed, ScottK :) 17:52:14 jcastro: so how did this idea come about 17:52:24 and who would it be aimed at 17:52:48 right so the idea would basically be for juju to be like everything else in ubuntu 17:52:57 since the charm store is analogous to an archive 17:53:16 and has it's own policies and all that, then it would make sense to have it governed in the same way as ubuntu itself 17:53:31 we've basically been doing that the entire time 17:53:46 but there was no escalation process, nor a policy that was official or anything 17:53:56 it was just a bunch of us kind of self-governing ourselves. 17:54:14 which is fine when you're small, but at some point we needed to tighten things up and codify these things, hence this document 17:54:19 +1 from me, really. Makes a lot of sense, it's well layed out. 17:54:33 +1 from me as well... nice job to those who contributed 17:54:35 it's mostly a clone of the existing forums process 17:54:47 since I didn't want to be special, just another board. :) 17:55:13 jcastro: so would members have to be Ubuntu members and or juju developers? 17:55:31 they would have to be ubuntu members 17:55:49 and in order to even review charms they need to be in the ~charmers group 17:56:14 #link https://launchpad.net/~charmers 17:56:24 which is different from a juju dev, yes> 17:56:25 so there is atm 26 people and 4 pending 17:56:25 ? 17:56:28 yes 17:56:34 right, makes sense 17:56:36 what's the difference as I'm unsure 17:56:37 I see charms have listed maintainers. Is that a strong maintainer like in Debian or more like a primary point of contact? 17:56:53 primarily a POC right now 17:57:03 we're trying to make it more of a strong maintainership 17:57:10 but we didn't have maintainers when it started 17:57:20 so when it came down to "claim your charm!" a few people bailed 17:57:23 That's a bit different than we do in Ubuntu with package maintainership. 17:57:33 so if I get this right... there would be Juju devs, Juju reviewers and the Juju Council? 17:58:01 it's a board 17:58:08 so there are juju core devs 17:58:15 who may or may not be ubuntu members 17:58:22 and then the ~charmers, which are reviewers 17:58:23 so if I get this right... there would be Juju devs, Juju reviewers and the Juju Board... that is correct? 17:58:27 I thought juju was bigger than Ubuntu, is this not the case? 17:58:30 and the review board would be made up of ~charmers 17:58:36 * cprofitt nods 17:58:56 micahg: what do you mean? 17:59:02 jcastro: more encompassing 17:59:07 sure, it can be 17:59:15 micahg: it is certainly bigger than Ubuntu, but there is also an Ubuntu part of it 17:59:31 but we still need a process for say, escalation, etc. 18:02:12 sounds great to me 18:02:46 me as well jcastro 18:02:55 czajkowski? 18:03:13 it's intersting that;s fore sure 18:03:21 but there are only 3 of us here from the CC today 18:03:33 so I think we should follow up on this with the others via email 18:04:00 any other comments regarding the juju board? 18:04:05 shouldn't the Ubuntu/non-Ubuntu things be clarified since wouldn't the CC only have authority over the Ubuntu part of the ecosystem 18:04:24 micahg: yup thats one thing I want to clarify with the CC 18:04:32 but ther are only 3/8 here atm 18:04:40 sorry 3/7 18:05:01 grr 8 18:05:16 anything else folks? 18:05:21 either way, no quorum :) 18:05:26 micahg: bingo :) 18:06:00 I'm tempted to not have meetings with no quorum 18:06:07 but, the future 18:06:14 is that a wrap up? 18:06:22 yes 18:06:35 #endmeeting