Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer schreef:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Le lundi 21 juin 2010, à 13:57 +0200, DenverD a écrit :
> >     
> > > Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> > >       
> > > > * Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-06-21 12:28]:
> > > >         
> > > > > The question is why are all the people you're listing not members yet?
> > > > > They should probably be!
> > > > >           
> > > > I'm not a member, and apart from not being able to participate in
> > > > decision-making I haven't seen a need yet to bother with an
> > > > application process.
> > > > Actually I think the openness and simplicity of taking part in
> > > > openSUSE development without having to bother with membership,
> > > > mandatory mentoring etc. as in other comparable projects is a
> > > > strength of openSUSE.
> > > >         
> > > same here, i've been contributing in several ways for several years
> > > and a couple times thought i should "become a member" but when i got
> > > to to part where i had to try to prove my worth as a contributor to an
> > > unseen panel of judges, i decided i'd rather just do what i do and let
> > > those in "the Community" who wanna be in charge of something (like
> > > deciding who gets into the circle and who can decide the future, etc)
> > > do that, without me signing up and _asking_ to join the in-crowd..
> > >       
> > Wow. You seem to have a really negative image of the membership process
> > :/ How can we improve this? Why is it a burden for you to mention your
> > contributions when applying? I don't remember this process to be
> > difficult or awkward when I applied a few years ago.
> >
> >     
>
> I became a member a year+ ago specifically because I wanted to be able
> to create openfate entries.  (No longer restricted to members).
>
> I haven't recently checked the wording of the page describing becoming
> a team member, but at the time it seemed to imply members had to earn
> their stripes (ie. prove themselves) by doing more than your casual
> enthusiast like myself.
>
> (ie. Packagers, bug fixers, etc. seemed to emphasized.)
>
> Even though I participate in a lot of opensuse threads thus providing
> support, file a few bugzillas, etc. and have even updated some wiki
> pages, I was not at all sure I'd be accepted.
>
> Maybe the wording of that section needs to be softened to reflect the
> actual critieria used to accept members.  Or maybe the criteria
> themselves need to be softened.
>
> Greg (team member)
>   
..and slowly the mystery of the team-members becomes unraveled...(is
revealed..)
(thnx for taking this to another topic)
A foundation however doesn't have members, only board-members. It can
contain an association , which ofcourse CAN have members.

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