Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 23:08 -0600, Bryen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 19:41 +0000, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 18:49 +0100, Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > > Discussion of the hard ones:
> > > Does upstream contributino qualifies to become a member?
> > > For openSUSE related stuff like infrastructure (eg. OBS) yes, for 
> > > software (KDE, Mono) no. But we shoudn't be "Heiliger als der Papst" 
> > > (more catholic than the pope).
> >
> > To clarify - this means the current opinion is that upstream project
> > developers who are only users of openSUSE wouldn't qualify?
> >
> > -JP
> > -- 
> > JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Novell, Inc.
>
> The question came up more for those of us who are new on the board and
> grasping an understanding of how membership applications were approved
> in the past.  It was not a declaration of a hard and fast rule that
> applies to any Novell employee.  

> What we were asking was whether or not a blanket rule should be applied
> where if you're a Novell employee, do you automatically get approval if
> you apply?  Although we're still sifting through the backlog of
> applications, we have found that generally the Novell applicants have
> met the test for approval, as any other applicant.  The requirements for
> anyone, Novell employee or not, is that there has to be some meaningful
> contribution to the project.  Some examples include:
>
> - Filing bug reports
> - Participating on the mailing lists
> - Contributing to the wiki
> - Providing online support (e.g., IRC support channels)
> - Advocacy/evangelism/projects that promote the use of openSUSE
> - Coding/Packaging/etc.
>
> The above list of examples is definitely not exhaustive and we look at
> each applicant individually.  (Hence why it takes so much time to
> process memberships.)  We believe that providing such a litmus test adds
> real value to the prestige of becoming a member of the openSUSE
> Project.  

What I'm saying is the a significant upstream contributor is really an
openSUSE contributor no matter who they are, we need their code, so if
someone like that applies (and does not really contribute to openSUSE
directly in the above areas), I think they should still be considered
for membership.  Building a better upstream relationship is a good
thing.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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