Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 12:42 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> 2010/6/22 Marcus Moeller <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Why do you want to create such an elite selection. I would prefer some
> > kind of mentorship (as mentioned I am hopefully going to do a workshop
> > on that at osc). A membership applicant should be able to decide on
> > his/her own if he/she prefers self processing (like following the
> > guidelines on the Join page/we could learn much from Fedora on that)
> > or would like to get mentored.
>
> Who does the mentoring? Where are the resources to do that?
>
> I see a contributor as someone who is autonomous enough to be able to
> learn and contribute. We should provide him the information he needs
> clearly, but mentoring seems a bit of a stretch.
>
> Note I don't use the word "member" on purpose, because I give very
> limited value to the idea of membership in openSUSE for various
> reasons, starting from the selection criteria. It's not that important
> to be member, since it does not represent a true recognition of
> contributions to the project. It is essentially a marketing
> initiative, so contributors show how openSUSE itself contributes to
> the open source world. Nothing wrong with it, but it does not add much
> to the value a contributor does.
>
> Best,
> A.

If you have ideas on how the membership criteria should be re-worked to
add more value and credibility, I'd love to hear it.  

Bryen

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