"What I like least in Ubuntu"

[Iain Lane]

Hi there,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:01:39PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> On 22.07.2011 10:41, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > = Development Processes =
> 
> >  (2) developer application docs:
> >      - too complicated,
> >      - unclear expectations
> 
> Amounts of want-to-be-ubuntu-developer levels and their names are
> misleading. I wanted to get rights to directly upload my packages and
> when I discussed it with few developers I was told to apply for 'Ubuntu
> Contributing Developer' (plus some text that MOTU status was replaced by
> it from some long time Ubuntu devs).

I want to know who holds this opinion, and to set them straight. MOTU is
not dead or dying, and it's really rather unfortunate that this
misinformation is being spread.

> So I applied and (after ~6 weeks) during UDS-O DMB's meeting I got it.
> Just to understand that what I really needed was 'Per Package Uploader'
> level. So it edited my wiki page and applied again. Today I would
> totally skip first phase as from my perspective it was useless waste of
> time.

That is unfortunate. Could you help to make this not happen to anyone
else by clarifying the documentation?

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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