Reply-To Revisited

Benjamin Mako Hill reported that there was still little to report. There has been very little feedback at all about the switch to 'reply-to list' on the users mailing list. Unless people complain in significant numbers, the council decided to take this silence as consent and will set the issue aside until it raised again by members of the community.

New MOTU

Oliver Grawert explained that the Masters of the Universe have hit a bottleneck because Chris Hall is short of time and has not recently had enough time to review packages and approve candidates.

Oliver suggested Martijn Van De Streek ("Treenaks" on IRC) for that position.

Benjamin Mako Hill was concerned that there might be a lack of MOTU leads with a large amount of technical experience in regards to making Debian package which Chris Halls out of the picture and he asked the members of the team, especially Martijn, if they were comfortable enough with their packaging skill to review packages.

Martijn said he was comfortable with his skills and in taking on the new role. Other folks involved with MOTU explained that there is already a active peer-review process which they think adequately addresses technical issues. Finally, Tollef Fog Heen spoke up to say that while he was particularly interested in helping out with AMD64 issues, he would be willing to lend a technically experienced eye to tricky packages or issues.

The council was comfortable with this and appointed Martijn as a new MOTU lead.

LoCo Team Leaders

In what is shaping up to look like a chronic timing problem, Matthias Urlichs was unable to attend the CC meeting and was unable to update the council on new LoCo team leads and on work that has been done in this regard. This was postponed to a mailing list. Perhaps the team will look at shifting the timing for the meeting back an few hours in the future.

New Members

There was a large swath of new member candidates and the majority of the meeting was spent going through this list. The following candidate all became members:

Scott Ritchie

Scott has done some good work on wine and was approved for membership.

Jerry Haltom

Known as "wasabi" on IRC, Jerry has been working with Jeff Baily and on ecj-bootstrap. With positive feedback from the MOTU and Jeff, he was approved for membership.

Aaron Lake

While Aaron only installed Ubuntu about a month ago, he has jumped right into development and has made an important impact on the Python transition already in universe uploading several Python related packages already. The MOTU had great things to say about him and he was approved for membership on these testimonials.

Luke Yelavich

Luke has done some significant work on an Ubuntu Live CD for accessibility and on accessibility documentation. While most people had not played around with the accessible Live CDs, his contributions were clearly valuable and of a magnitude that the council offered membership to Luke.

Niall Sheridan

Niall has a few packages in universe and a set of package online. He also helped out with the Python transition doing some good work there. The MOTU crew was happy to vouch for him and eager to have him on board. He was approved for membership.

Jani Monoses

Jani was the third candidate that had done some good work on the Python transition for the MOTU team. He was attending the meeting and gave a summary of his work so far highlighting work in universe. The council approved him for membership.

A decision on the following candidate was deferred:

Mattias Eriksson

Known as "snaggan on IRC", Mattias has a list of packages at http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen/ubuntu/ which need a little bit of work but are significant contributions. The team decided to defer a decision until the next CC meeting.