Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (301 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:50:31 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:

> > I'm generally fine with that.  Just want to see it clarified that
> > contribution is definitely not going to be part of renewal criteria.
>
> It is all about contribution, that's in the end why we have a
> contribution criteria to become a member in the first place.

I'm kinda wondering if maybe the two being intermingled like this isn't 
problematic on some level.

Contributions should be recognized, certainly.  But a recognized 
contributor perhaps is not something that one should be responsible for 
approaching a membership board saying "See what I've done?" but rather a 
third party nomination of some sort.

Being involved in project governance, though, is (perhaps) a different 
story, because that's something that people might elect to do.  Indeed, 
volunteering to be involved in project governance in and of itself 
*might* be seen as a contribution in its own merit.

Perhaps what we should be looking at is the various roles in the project 
and how they relate to the project as a whole.  If we do that, then the 
discussion of project governance becomes just about another role in the 
project; how one gets involved in project governance then becomes a 
discussion more along the lines of how one would have patches accepted 
into the codebase rather than a "contribution merit" discussion (which 
seems to derail the discussion).

Jim

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