Postings by Emmet Hikory

I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) has
joined the ranks of Core Developers. Jonathan is a Kubuntu developer
and upstream KDE developer who has been doing an amazing job with his
daily work on Kubuntu. Jonathan decided to apply for Core Developer
due to some Kubuntu packages not being in the package set. Please
gant him warm welcome!

Fellow Developers,
A few weeks ago we got into a discussion of patch review whilst
discussing sponsoring. Since then, Nigel Babu has made great strides
at organising patch review and the Ubuntu Reviewers team. He recently
sent out a call for help to the bugsquad (1), but I know many of you,
although members of bugsquad, don't follow that list, so I wanted to
echo it here:

We have lots of patches that need review, need to get pushed
upstream, etc.

I am glad to announce that Scott Howard (showard) has joined the
ranks of Contributing Developers. Scott has been working with
bugsquad for some time, with additional direct involvement in GNOME
and Debian. Recent work in Ubuntu has been with gnome-power-manager
and the MOTU Science team. He looks forward to working more with
science packages both in Debian and Ubuntu. Please welcome him to the
team!

I am proud to announce that Didier Roche (didrocks) has joined the
ranks of Core Developers. Didier has been engaged in stellar work as
a MOTU, as an Ubuntu Desktop Developer, and was no longer able to
conttain himself to any specific area of the archive. In line with
his background of fixing anything that got in his way, he has no
specific plans for future development. Please welcome him to the
team!

I am happy to announce that Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) has joined
the ranks of MOTU. Loong Jin has been working extensively with Geany,
general plg-CLI stuff, and miscellaneous other bugs. He is looking
forward to helping with patch review and developer training. Please
welcome him to the team!

There was some dissension about the best way to handle a fakesync
in #ubuntu-motu today, and a few of us talked about why we might
fakesync, and what should happen to the package after fakesync. It
appears that the term "fakesync" is currently used in a couple of
different contexts, and that there are several different practices in
place on how to best perform a fakesync, which results in some
confusion when someone asks about them, and requires more intervention
in later review of the package than is strictly necessary.

I am pleased to announce that Michal Zajac has become a MOTU.
Michal has been doing stellar work with the Kubuntu Ninjas, and has
been involved in supporting the long tail of KDE packages in Ubuntu.
Please welcome him to the team.

I am pleased to announce that Mathieu Trudel has become a
Contributing Developer. Mathieu has been doing sterling work as a
member of the Network Manager team, and is expecting to also work more
with the server and desktop teams in the future.,

Please welcome him to the team.

One nice feature about the teams not being unified is that one can
get realtime updates of stuff needing sponsoring through the LP
queues. Your sponsoring page is sometimes useful, but often hours out
of date, which can be a factor on those (currently unfortunately rare)
occasions when several people are reviewing stuff in parallel.
Another nice feature is that it encourages integration and
coordination within a team covering a given package set.

Hello all,
The Ubuntu Java team stalled recently, but we're getting more
active again, and are restarting regular meetings, to be held at 9:00
UTC Thursdays, from 2nd July. The agenda for the meetings is on the
wiki (0), and we'll be looking for items to add to our roadmap (1).

If you're working on Java in Ubuntu, or would like to do so,
please join us, and share what you've been doing, what you plan to do,
or anything else of interest.

0: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Meeting" title="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Meeting">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Meeting</a>
1: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Roadmap" title="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Roadmap">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/Roadmap</a>

Emmet Hikory has proposed merging lp:~persia/ubuntu-seeds/platform.jaunty+flash-installer-is-an-armel-boot-loader-installer into lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/platform.jaunty.

Just a minor cleanup. germinate is smart enough to ignore flash-kernel-installer for other architectures, but it makes the file look less pretty.

Fellow Developers,
Daniel Holbach's term in the MOTU Council will be coming to a
close next month, and it is time for us to proceed with the selection
process to determine who shall hold that seat. We will be following
the same process as used previously (0), and would like to ask the
development community to submit any candidate nominations for
potential members to the MOTU Council for consideration: such
nominations may be made via public or private email, IRC, telephone,
personal conversation, or any other communication method you choose
(1), to any current MOTU Council Member.

Fellow Developers,
I am sure that some of you like tarball-in-tarball packaging, and
that others of you dislike it. Some of you may have no special
preference I've seen discussions where strong arguments were presented
for doing it each way, and have built my own set of personal preferences
on the matter.

On this contentious topic, I'd like to ask that one thing *never* be
done in this area: if you are updating to a new upstream of a package
that is present in Debian, and not yet updated, please never alter the
previous choice of whether to use tarball-in-tarball or not.

Fellow Developers
I'll be without Internet access from about 23rd November until
nearly UDS. During much of this time, I'll likely be without access to
voice communications systems (mountains and lakes are nice once in a
while, but tend to have poor infrastructure).

I think I have a fairly complete list of outstanding things to do
before that starts, and people willing to cover some of my ongoing
activities, but if any of you have something else that needs my
attention before UDS, please contact me soonest (e.g.