On 02/16/2012 06:03 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
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.
It is or would be easier to express what we are after.
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.
Being involved in project governance is definitely a contribution, at least in my book, and requires more patience that toiling away on technical items. However, our community is based around a technical "product" and I feel strongly that those involved in governance of the project should contribute to the technical content of the project or the promotion of our project. Just being involved in the governance is, in my opinion insufficient.
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).
I think the governance roles are reasonably defined. However, within this definition there is nothing that strikes at the heart of the matter we are trying to resolve. What do you do with those that are members but no longer contribute? Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org