Ubuntu Developer Membership Board Agenda
This page records the agenda for the next meeting of the Ubuntu Developer Membership Board.
How to Apply
Before putting yourself on the schedule, read this section in its entirety.
This board decides about applications to one of the different Ubuntu Developer roles
See Application Process for full instructions and aspects of a good application as well as application knowledge requirements.
This section only describes the administrative matter of arranging your application meeting.
To apply for upload permissions:
- Pick a suitable application meeting slot. It must be at least one week away to allow time to your application. The Developer Membership Board will consider a maximum of one applicant per meeting regardless of the type of application, thereby meeting slots that already have an applicant are not available.
- Add your name to the agenda below, linking to your Discourse application page.
- Announce your application and selected meeting date by writing an email to the devel-permissions@ list, which includes:
- the link to your Discourse application page.
- the date of your meeting date and a link to the agenda.
Meetings are held Mondays fortnightly on Google Meet, or on request Matrix in #meeting:ubuntu.com.
DMB meetings for 2H/2025 and 1H/2026
| Date | Time (UTC) | Chair/backup | Requested application review (max 1 per meeting) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-07 | 19:00 | ||
| 2025-07-21 | 13:00 | (moved to 2025-07-18 in person) | |
| 2025-08-04 | 15:30 | lvoytek | Ubuntu Core Developer by Rik Mills (IRC) (passed, logs) |
| 2025-08-18 | 13:00 | paelzer | no application queued - hence let us review https://canonical-ubuntu-project.readthedocs-hosted.com/staging/dmb/index-dmb (small fixes as needed, suggests for broken links, wiki updates for now, next steps) |
| 2025-09-01 | 15:30 | paelzer | no application queued - discussed clarifying expectations, allowing non wiki applications and the extension of the Desktop package set (logs variant a / variant b) |
| 2025-09-15 | 13:00 | Athos | PPU application (server packageset) by Renan Rodrigo (passed) |
| 2025-09-29 | 15:30 | paelzer | kernel-dkms PPU Application by Massimiliano Pellizzer (passed, logs) |
| 2025-10-13 | 13:00 | Note: forecast predicts a chance of this not having quorum, but gladly no application is scheduled currently (5 days before) so that is not a problem. Those who can will meet to process the general agenda, especially ML requests and progress on the long term action items | |
| 2025-10-27 | 15:30 | Cancelled: Canonical internal event. | |
| 2025-11-10 | 13:00 | lvoytek | PPU (raspi) and MOTU application by Pragyansh Chaturvedi (passed, logs) |
| 2025-11-24 | 15:30 | paelzer | Ubuntu Core Developer by Florent ‘Skia’ Jacquet (passed, logs) |
| 2025-12-08 | 13:00 | @bdrung | PPU application (google guest package set) by Chlo Smith/kajiya |
| 2025-12-22 | 15:30 | – | Cancelled: EOY shutdown. |
| 2026-01-05 | 13:00 | @rbasak | discussed how to handle package set updates; Ubuntu Contributing Developer by Mitchell Augustin done earlier and (passed) |
| 2026-01-19 | 15:30 | @utkarsh | PPU application (server packageset) by Jonas Jelten |
| 2026-02-02 | 13:00 | no quorum, too many will be travelling back from FOSDEM | |
| 2026-02-16 | 15:30 | @juliank | PPU application (google guest package set) by Chlo Smith/kajiya [v2.0  ] |
| 2026-03-02 | 13:00 | @athos-ribeiro | MOTU application by Otto Kekäläinen |
| 2026-03-16 | 15:30 | Core Developer application by Ural Tunaboyu | |
| 2026-03-30 | 13:00 | ||
| 2026-04-13 | 15:30 | ||
| 2026-04-27 | 13:00 | ||
| 2026-05-11 | 15:30 | ||
| 2026-05-25 | 13:00 | ||
| 2026-06-08 | 15:30 | ||
| 2026-06-22 | 13:00 |
Next meeting: 2026-01-05 13:00 UTC; chair: @rbasak
Agenda
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Long-term action items (do not need to be mentioned in regular meetings)
- (athos) pkgset tooling needs full documentation and automation
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Review of previous action items
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rbasak - continue driving the discussion on adding packages to the Ubuntu desktop package set
- Some packages in the discussion can be added as-is. To do so filter the remainder of the list to identify packages that are not seeded
- The definition of desktop extra needs to be discussed so we know what it is meant to include
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paelzer - decide and act on server set update
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Application review
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Outstanding mailing list requests to assign
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Open TB bugs
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Select a chair for the next meeting
- (If in doubt next from https://launchpad.net/~developer-membership-board/+members)
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AOB
If adding agenda items, please place them as subitems of the appropriate major item above. Please also prefix your entry with a number indicating the order of application.
After the meeting
- Make sure actions were assigned for concluded applications (whether successful or unsuccessful). Necessary actions and their checklists are documented at Actions after a successful application and Actions after an unsuccessful application.
- Submit a merge request for the meeting notes to the dmb-meeting-history repository
- Update the agenda
Meeting logs
Logs from previous meetings are kept available and can be found at DMB meeting logs.