I would like to get some help in sorting out a long-standing issue with permissions for the Ubuntu distribution in Launchpad. There are a variety of super-powers which are held by the people and teams who occupy the following roles:
- Maintainer - Driver (global and per-series) - Bug supervisor - Release manager (per-series) Brian also mentioned a "distro series owner" but I can't find that in LP. Including things like targeting bugs and blueprints, branching a new release of Ubuntu, and so on. At present, it's very unclear which role has which privileges. Our objectives are: 1.To ensure that the people who require these privileges have them, and no one else does (for safety's sake) 2.Make it clear which roles hold which permissions, so that we don't get into a tangled mess like this again in the future The following bug contains some additional history (we just passed its 3-year anniversary): https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/174375 Brian Murray did some work on this recently, but I'm having trouble working out what remains to be done. I've tried to piece together the current status from the email and bug record, and it's still too confusing. I would appreciate if someone could fill out this template for me: The Maintainer of Ubuntu has the following privileges: - (the unique class name and what it means in plain English) - ... The Bug Supervisor for Ubuntu has the following privileges: - (the unique class name and what it means in plain English) - ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugsupervisor says "The Launchpad id of the person or team (preferred) responsible for bug management. The bug supervisor will be subscribed to all bugs and will receive email about all activity on all bugs for this project, so that should be a factor in your decision. The bug supervisor will also have access to all private bugs." The Driver for Ubuntu (or a particular Ubuntu series) has the following privileges: - (the unique class name and what it means in plain English) - ... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+driver says "The person or team responsible for decisions about features and bugs that will be targeted for any series in this distribution. Note that you can also specify a driver on each series whose permissions will be limited to that specific series." The Release Manager for an Ubuntu series has the following privileges: - (the unique class name and what it means in plain English) - ... The only other special role I'm aware of is Mirror Administrators, which seems sufficiently documented on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+selectmirroradmins Once we know what privileges are associated with these different roles, we will probably want to: - Make any further tweaks necessary so that these roles are coherent - Create and assign teams as needed so that the right people have the right sets of permissions Thanks in advance for your help. -- - mdz _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
