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, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
