Re: Debian TC representative on the Ubuntu Technical Board
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:34:35PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> We'd like to see that most significant technical discussions at the
> board level in Ubuntu have some Debian involvement as well, so that we
> can share advice, learn from each other's history, compare notes on
> contentious issues that are coming up in both distributions, etc. (This
> is as opposed to more local governance kinds of things; for example the
> TB is currently the approver of new developer applications, although
> we're about to devolve that. A Debian representative would probably not
> be hugely interested in this kind of thing, although there's no reason
> for those discussions to be closed.)
>
> Like the TC, we're a body of last resort and so don't get involved in
> every last operational detail, but quite a few interesting things have
> come up for our review lately: samples over the last couple of months
> include Mono's patent status, non-trivial updates to ClamAV in stable
> releases, standards for base-2 vs. base-10 prefixes in user-visible
> text, and best practices on statistics gathering for developers, all of
> which seem to be immediately or potentially interesting for Debian too.
> If it helps to get a handle on the time commitment involved, I reckon
> that at the moment we're getting perhaps one issue every two weeks or so
> that's not primarily internal to Ubuntu, and that might be of interest
> to a Debian representative.
>
> We can't really define the role without Debian involvement, so that's
> part of what the representative would need to do; but does that give you
> some idea of what we're talking about?
Any word on this? I'd just like to keep the discussion alive.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
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