On 12/19/20 12:28 AM, Martin Pluskal wrote:
On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 00:21 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
On 12/19/20 12:04 AM, Martin Pluskal wrote:
On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 23:53 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
Anyways let me assure you that applications that were recieved before beginning of elections were thoroughly evaluated, yet obviously in several cases membership officials could not come to conclusion that claimed contributions match our membership guidelines [1] - that is "continued and substantial contributions to the openSUSE project".
I believe that a previous board loosened the criteria a bit. From that document
is that the so called "openSUSE Members" have contributed in a measurable way, shown a desire to have voting rights within the openSUSE project and have completed the application process
and
As mentioned in the introduction, contribution in a measurable way is the basis for becoming an "openSUSE Member"
So I believe under the current rules any "Measurable Contribution" should be enough for membership rather then the old "continued and substantial contributions to the openSUSE project". Richard proposed this change and it was adopted by the community and this is what the board expects the membership officials should be using as criteria see.
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/V...
and
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/H...
Thanks
Indeed
And we try to be as relaxed as possible when accepting new membership applications, but still there are cases where members of membership comitee are not able to reach immediate decision.
Please note that we recieve application with empty profiles, promises of future contributions and no existing one and most difficult contributions on platform where we are not present (various social media etc ...) Still in good faith we try to look up the applicant and find out if he has shown any contribution - but its not allways a trivial task ...
Cheers
Martin
Yeah understood, I just wanted to clarify your comments in the last email as they didn't quite line up with the current rules, but I certainly understand it can be hard sometimes. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B