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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:36:04AM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 11:47 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> > It should be clear I have a mixed opinion about this and I am wondering
> > what the rest of the team thinks.
> 
> I think they should obviously be able to apply by the normal
> method, however here I think we are discussing reducing the requirements
> for them.
> 
> I think it would be useful, but just waving through anyone that
> says "I want to become a MOTU" seems like a bad idea.

Right, I would still want them to apply but believe that the type of
bug work they have done will be slightly different from what we have
been looking for.
 
> I have two suggestions. First, that we make the universe-contributors
> part of bugcontrol, as these people have been active in the community
> for a while, and have been advocated by various developers, so we can
> be reasonably sure that they won't abuse their powers or be rude to
> bug reporters.

This sounds like a reasonable idea to me.  Is there a group that
oversees the universe-contributors team that we should contact?
Additionally, is there a way to get in touch with this group of people
so we can inform them about their new abilities and responsibilities?
 
> Secondly, we could have an application process for someone active in
> the development community that just involves checking a random sample
> of bugs from their bug page.

I'd rather that they submit five bugs as happens with the regular
application process.
 
> However, I don't think the current application process is onerous,
> and we don't seem to be overloaded with applications at the moment.
> Was the prospective MOTU you spoke to reluctant to apply this way,
> or was it that they hadn't been triaging normal bugs, and so wouldn't
> have had the evidence for their application?

They hadn't been triaging "normal" bugs so some of our evaluation
criteria[0], like points 4, 6 and 7 may not apply to these candidates.
However, I think there will still be sufficient information to evaluate
their work.

Subsequently, I think the applicant should apply using the current
application process but identify themselves as a prospective MOTU or
universe-contributor.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugControl
 
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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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