MOTU Application

[Sarah Hobbs]

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Stefan Potyra wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Monday 25 June 2007 20:49:57 Chris Cheney wrote:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> I plan to help out with sponsorship of packages to universe including
>> working with the MOTU KDE Team. I also plan to do merges where my time
>> allows. However, most, if not all, of the packages I maintain and have
>> maintained for Debian in the past are in Ubuntu main. And my primary
>> focus will be OpenOffice.org which is also in main. So I will be
>> applying for core-dev after I am a MOTU.
> 
> It's nice to get a clear answer on where you stand, thanks for this.
> 
> However as Scott already pointed out is that MOTU-ship is also about 
> community. And my humble opinion is that it's a big chance for MOTU-land if a 
> Canonical employee and future core-dev starts working within the community 
> and thus learns the needs (and sometimes different views) of the MOTUs first. 
> The chance I see is that this will bring the two groups (Canonical employed) 
> core-devs and MOTUs further together instead of having both work only 
> alongside.
> 
> So right now, I'm having a hard time coming to a decision. So I'm asking you: 
> If you were in MC and would have decide on your application, how would you 
> decide, and more important with what reasoning?

Based on how much he's helping with bugs in #ubuntu-bugs, with not just
oo.o ones, and how he's looking to do merges (which have mostly already
been done, so he couldnt), I think he'd make a good addition.

Having come into ubuntu so quickly, it's hard to have seen how the
development community works, and how it differs from debian.  However,
i'm confident that he'll see the differences, and be able to act on them
sanely.  I don't think that he'll forget about the way we work, as soon
as he gets core.

Then again - he's employed by Canonical to work on open office - so
therefore they think he'll do a good job on it - dont you guys have to
approve him anyway?

Just my AUD $0.02

Hobbsee

> 
> Cheers,
>     Stefan.
> 
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