Hello again, Le Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:15:22 +0000, Michael Meeks <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:59 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > IMHO the "future commitment" is sufficiently built on an > > (already over-long) three month history with the project - I would > > like to see that removed. > > To expand on this; is it -really- our intention to deny > membership to people who have contributed a huge amount to > LibreOffice already, and are entirely new ? - having started work on > LibreOffice only when it was announced ? We needed to put a date, but reading that sentence I'm sure that there's enough flexibility to it to accommodate most of the tangential cases... (Eventually the Membership Committee is going to come up with all sorts of micro-rules and assessment that will give many of us a complete headache)... Best, Charles. > > There is a lot to dislike in this: > > "Every membership applicant must have been active for at least > three (3) months, and should make a moral commitment to at > least six (6) months activity (not counting the first three > (3) months of fulfillment of qualification)." > > Can we not simply defer to the "significant contribution" > piece ? ultimately, if someone has made a really significant > contribution in the last week, I'm well up for them not being > excluded from membership; and I think we cover that in the criteria > for membership elsewhere: good reputation, and doing non-trivial work. > > Or do we plan some special one-off thing for entirely new > contributors since we created LibreOffice ? > > Thanks, > > Michael. > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
