On 02/12/2018 02:12 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
I think to protect ourselves against someone giving a +1 in a certain case without knowing some information this is a reasonable thing to do. It would have to be a pretty extreme case such as the person applying had previously been banned from mailing lists for being abusive to other members etc.
The change I'd make though is, in such a case (or possibly in any case where the membership committee may have questions) I think that the person in question should be referred to and discussed / approved / rejected by the board not the membership committee. The reason for this is the membership committee is really an "Administrative" group that are just clearly implementing a set of policies that have been put in place and agreed to by the community where as the board handles all other issues like this such as final moderation of mailing lists.
Really all this clause would do is prevent the case where someone is added as a member then removed from the project shortly after as they have been violating community guidelines. In the current proposal someone could be on there final warning from the board for "violations of community standards" and apply for and become a member (they are active after all and currently thats the only requirement). By adding a clause such as this it gives the board the power to say something along the lines of "your on your final warning we haven't been happy with your behavior to date, please apply again in a year and if your behavior has improved we will accept you". This also still falls under the safety net of if 20% of members feel the board has treated someone unreasonably they can get a new board.
Really its a clause that hopefully never gets used but potentially gives the board the power to make a possibly messy situation less messy.
+1 to everything else in the original plan
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