Ubuntu release manager lacks access to freeze the archive

[Steve Langasek]

Somewhere during the hardy release cycle, I've lost access to change the distrorelease status of the development release to 'frozen'. Although we used soft freezes during the alpha series, I should be able to change the status for the betas without having to bug someone from the IS team.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Confirmed (as Steve's line manager). FWIW, I don't have this access either.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Doubly-confirmed, as the Ubuntu OSA. I don't need a duckie (and haven't had one for ages), but you'd think one (or all three) of the release team, the archive admin team, or the Ubuntu SA should have access to mangle this by now. :)

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I want to give the distroseries drivers the same power as project series drivers (release managers).

The power to edit the status clearly belongs to the Launchpad admin. I don't think this is right.

I think any person/team that is set to be the driver of a series, such as karmic, should have the power to edit:
    Displayname
    Title
    Summary
    Description

Plus these two field not listed on the edit screen
    Email address for changes (I don't think there is harm is allowing the driver to change this)
    status (because only the driver knows the status)

My assumption is that the ~ubuntu-drivers team are trusted to manage their releases. The team currently has 33 members, 15 direct and 18 from ~communitycouncil, ~techboard, and ~uds-organizers. If ~ubuntu-driver has too many people, then I suggest that an ubuntu-release-managers team be created and assigned to the series driver role.