Hey, nice to see this get together of the openSUSE Elders Council ;-) On 02.06.2015 13:30, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Monday 01 June 2015 15:06:54 Robert Schweikert wrote:
"Thank you for your contributions so far to the openSUSE Project. All contributions are important and valued. After review of your application for membership, we were unable to verify a contribution level that would warrant us to accept your application at this time. However, this does not preclude you from applying again in the future after you have had a chance to be more involved with the openSUSE projec t."
Where is it defined what a "contribution level to warrant us to accept your application" is?
Nowhere, its a group of people voting on if your individual contributions are "continued and substantial". And how would you define that? There are a gazillion ways to contribute and after you're finished defining them there are a gazillion and sixteen ways :-)
It would be much better, if people would have a concrete idea of what they would have to actually do to become members.
Continued and substantial contribution sums that up pretty nicely. The documentation also mentions Portal:How_to_participate...
That said, the whole idea of judging people's contributions feels unwelcoming to me. I think it is a structural flaw of the openSUSE membership that you can't join by doing things, but you have to pass a committee. This is not how you encourage people to become part of a community. I would be very much in favor of just eliminating the need for discussing wording of rejection letters by not rejecting people who want to be part of the community.
So you want people who never have done anything "continued and substantial" to our project to join the body that elects our board? I'm pretty sure that this isn't a good idea :-) Please don't confuse being part of the openSUSE project with being a "openSUSE Member". Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org