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? It would be much better, if people would have a concrete idea
of what they would have to actually do to become members.
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. 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.
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Cornelius Schumacher