Proposed new release team members

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:38:32PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> In Orlando, we discussed that additions to the release team would be something 
> we'd discuss among ourselves and do by team consensus.
> 
> I'd like to propose Stefano Rivera (tumbleweed) and  Iain Lane (Laney).  They 
> are both well respected Ubuntu (and Debian) developers who I'm sure will be 
> good additions to the team.  Stefano has volunteered to take over the week 
> MOTU report in the release team meeting as I lack the time to do it justice.
> 
> I've discussed this with some of you already, but I'd appreciate opinions in  
> reply to this mail so we can have it on the record.

I'm definitely in favour of both.

Regarding the question of whether we need extra capacity on the team; as
well as redundancy generally being useful, I think it would help if we
had the time to help organise folks better to get the archive in shape
earlier in the cycle, rather than having to scramble quite so much after
feature freeze.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]