On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 02:00 +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Jan 26, 12 01:05:40 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
That is 2 reminders, every two year. Assume I have a 50% chance of missing such an email, chances are high that I get kicked every 4 years.
We need to find something practical too. We don't have a dozen people who spend most of their time keeping track.
You got me wrong here. I am only venturing in the direction of automation to reduce manual work.
[Buildservice activity] If we don't have the email address of a member, who are we supposed to get in touch if needed?
Pardon? We ponder about mailings, and cannot make address listings?
Do we have statistics of activity?
No, we don't have anything. Our tools mostly suck in that regard, and our tooling around them too, what I was referring to in a previous post.
Ouch. I did not expect it was that bad.
It's already really annoying and tedious to just look up the activity of people who request membership: [...]
Wow. We *really* need tooling here. How should we ever appreciate a thousand members, if a few hundereds are perceived as a pain already?
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We don't have those metrics. Collecting them is very tedious and has to be made by a human.
No, humans should explicitly not be allowed to collect any metrics. error prone, subjective, tedious.
Requires implementation, won't happen. Have you asked around?
And we need a valid email address to contact someone. YES!
Or (uaaah, scary thought) maybe I'd like to sponsor opensuse by sending my 5 EUR every year. Would that confirm membership too?
Not possible as of now anyway. If it was possible, and if we could track that, personally, I wouldn't see that as a membership contribution.
I guess, I agree with that last one :-)
cheers, JW-
Honestly, while I think technical considerations are valid, we're getting quickly bogged down on that end for a thread that is literally less than four hours old thus far. The intent of Robert's original posting was not "how do we implement" but rather "how do we want to redefine our membership." Let's give that question its fair debate and then we can move on to feasibility which includes technical considerations. Bryen M Yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org