On 29 May 2011 08:03, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > The Council serves a number of purposes: > > * it highlights a core group who can set policy for the whole work > * it provides a forums for debate and discussion, with resolution > (i.e. a decisive forum) > * it recognises contributors and can confer Ubuntu membership as a result > * it manages the permissions of contribution (i.e. who has commit to a > branch in UDD, and who can upload to which package)
The last point is a new one for any Ubuntu council as far as I know. To date all the councils we've appointed have been governance bodies which delegate the CC's responsibilities. The DMB and the TB aren't called "councils", for very deliberate reasons I think (i.e. we've distinguished community governance responsibilities from technical responsibilities). If package upload permissions are involved, this is something for the TB to discuss. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
