Hi, those minutes are quite old so not sure about the current status of some topics but still felt like I have to comment as individual member of the membership officials. (Especially my comments are my personal ones!) Am 14.03.22 um 13:55 schrieb Neal Gompa:
== Topic: openSUSE Membership ==
Bill: Suggests the Board asks for the state of membership applications/processing on a regular occurrence. It would add some more accountability for such a core function. Gerald: What would be a reasonable cadence? Neal: Quarterly? Bill: Seems reasonable, we should also report around election time too, since that's when most applications happen anyway.
Sounds reasonable to me to cross check since there is always a risk that for some reason some members are busy or distracted and some things get delayed.
Emily: Would like to join the membership officials too. Bill seems to be doing everything and she's like to help out.
I would like to understand where this impression is coming from?
Axel: Don't think the board can do this. Neal: It's actually one of the few things we can directly do. Gerald: Points out Wolfgang and others do plenty too. We shouldn't use this power to randomly add more people because it's not terribly polite. There's a lot of discussion about the particulars between Gerald and Bill. Emily: They seem to be full of people that do lots of things right now, and don't focus much on membership. Gerald: Historically the team was quite large and we were told even members of the team didn't precisely know who was on it, and some were missing in action. Plus they did not have ownership of their own mailing list or Wiki page, which has been/is being addressed now. The ones that were primarily processing things (Wolfgang and Dominique) are also very busy processing things around the last election. Bill was a good addition and perhaps adding Emily will help too.
I can confirm Gerald's points. But also let me add a few: Yes, there was (specifically in 2021) lack of timely processing of membership requests. This started mainly because of two things: - membership-officials disappeared over time and too few were left apparently. So for example I wasn't aware that my part now was not like 10% but rather 50% of the required attention. This together with the fact that connect never actively informed us about new requests was one of the issues led into last years situation - the tooling (connect) was decommissioned without a proper replacement As of today we still suffer partially from it. Our normal processes cannot be applied at this moment and we need to reorganize ourselves. The good thing is that Pagure sends notifications now at least and just to add this - there is NO backlog of applications and never has been really since the last elections.
Bill: He proposed to the team to meet monthly, they didn't receive the idea well.
Given the timing of the protocol and my mail history this seems to be a bad coincidence. Beginning of February all active members of the officials were agreeing to a possible good meeting day and time. So far we didn't arrange to meet finally though but from my point of view and understanding not because we "didn't receive it well" but because the final initiative to set it up didn't happen yet. Wolfgang