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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:17:36PM -0400, Jorge Castro wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Would a note in the existing Debian <-> Ubuntu teamwork documentation
> >> be sufficient for this? Not that I envision DDs swarming Launchpad and
> >> flipping all the buttons, but surely if they're in Launchpad already
> >> then they have an interest in working with the Ubuntu team and this
> >> would bring more plusses than minuses?
> >
> > IMHO, no, since there's no obligation to read it.
> 
> It's been pointed out to me in IRC that I am giving the impression
> that all DDs automatically would get bug control, so let me clarify
> that so there's no confusion.
> 
> I am saying we make people in the Launchpad ~debiandevelopers group
> members of bug control. The access control for that group would be
> done by the existing Ubuntu/Debian folks (the same people who have
> traditionally done this kind of work, aka. #ubuntu-debian folks). If a
> DD doesn't care about bugs in Launchpad then they'd likely not really
> care if they have permission to change it.
> 
> If they do care about it then it'd be easier if the existing
> Ubuntu/Debian developers to put those people in the team and then work
> the people that way. Also the obligation thing isn't so important,
> Ubuntu developers aren't obliged to work with Debian either but we
> encourage people to do so because it's the right thing to do, I think
> the same thing applies the other way around.
> 
> (I personally think given the amount of trust that we have in Debian
> with most of the packages in Universe that it's reasonable to give
> them blanket bug-control, but I can understand the team wanting to be
> strict about access, which is why I think having interested DDs put in
> a team is a middle balance.)

I like this idea and had been thinking of something similar - creating a
team for upstream developers rather than adding them directly to Bug
Control.  It'd then be neat to update the karma suffix Greasemonkey
script to display the icons of the Debian Developers and upstream
developers team so we can better identify authoritative comments.

Having said that did you really mean the debiandevelopers team[1] in
Launchpad?  That team seems to have more pending members than active
ones and only has one administrator.  Additionally, they don't have a
team icon!

Thanks for bringing this up!
--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master

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