On 02.06.2015 13:30, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
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. No, please do not start thinking about a definition now ;-)
Rather the other way around: Do we _really_ have a problem with too many (even inactive) members? I guess not. So why decline _at_all_? Is it that we need to protect our nice club here? Yes, we can drop out obvious cheaters (I am sure the board is able to judge that) but all (how many?) the others? If they're interested, just let them in. Somebody who does not contribute today, can do tomorrow!
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.
Exactly. Rather discuss a letter such as "We have seen you being active so much in openSUSE recently, how about you become an openSUSE member to help us making the right decisions?". Or just do some work :o) Thanks, klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org