-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/2015 07:30 AM, 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?
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members
It would be much better, if people would have a concrete idea of what they would have to actually do to become members.
But is not an exact science as in "x number of lines of code", "y number of packages", "z number of wiki pages translated". I'd say casting activity into exact "hard" accountable numbers would be a futile attempt.
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.
No one has to be a member. All contributors are recognized. Being a member just provides some "perks". For the most part, other than board elections all contributors are on equal footing. There is no distinction between members and non-members. As we have an elected board a definition of a group regarding who gets to run and who gets to vote is probably a reasonable approach. Having this pool boundless, i.e. everyone in the world that claims to contribute gets to vote or run for a board position is probably not practical. A membership model appears reasonable. Of course the membership model could be changed to a "pay for membership" model. This would require that we have some means to collect funds, another problem.
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.
Everyone can be part of the community, no one if forced to be a member. I think Jan pointed out that he is not a member but very much feels that he has influence on the project and where it is going. Thus, there is at least some evidence that the "membership" part is not much, if any of a deterrent. Later, Robert - -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVbaF+AAoJEE4FgL32d2UkFXUH/iv2TxwfmzrKACwpYxpQmHnJ 2gnUy9y5FdC5JMLj1dyy6OaXD6yuttjKUoobk9uypRvBrI/UW67LKCREPBpGDhhy zgUPMjdnTtzhhvaVj9fPPpva8n7UW+g7cQwPM66L479YD89ktaRs+HjOIiPOy1UY FRLml1UC/wOGwEgoDl/Jcix1TXfZAlkQ6rjxLXWqHcW/38yxxqsOU1FgO53YMtCx Ym6jmsCL6g+CCsQ2NYu77+fOpdOEEXYCl2y3wFUCHy/hO88oWed8Qnb3oci7X0vG Xa4Vux7GEX42f3WFRDHFBtsj2ZpbV+40RVb80xNd+IFPylbumVw4LAGNaQligVg= =oH1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org