On 2 June 2015 at 12:30, Cornelius Schumacher
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.
It would be, but in order to be able to encompass the full range of potential contributions, including technical, community, support and everything else, we are left with the definition decided a very long time ago "Sustained and Substantial", which is obviously somewhat subjective.
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.
The purpose of the Membership commitee is not to *judge* peoples contributions, but to *validate* the claimed contributions in the application for Membership The most common reason for the template email we're discussing being sent out is because in many, many, many (way too many cases) people are applying to be a Member with either NO contributions in their application (despite the instructions on https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members) or, also sadly very common, are applications promising to contribute if they become members, which is totally the wrong way around Contribute first, then you become a Member
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.
Anyone can be part of the community, anyone can contribute, without any committee, or anyone else giving anyone any permission to do so. 'Membership' in the openSUSE sense is about having proven a long term commitment to the openSUSE project, which makes you eligible to vote in major decisions by the Project, and have an openSUSE email address.. that's all. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org