On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:39 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > If you are feeling super-paranoid, we can have a "Planet" module on > > bugzilla, and we can point people to a page with instructions: > > > > 1. Get a bugzilla account. > > > > 2. File a bug under the Planet module. > > > > 3. A number of Trusted People(tm) get automatically CCed on the bug; > > this can be yourself and other old fogeys. > > > > 4. We debate to death on the bug itself, so that the requester can > be > > aware of why his blog is / is not appropriate. > > > > 5. The blog gets added to the SVN module. > > I like the bug approach.
Me too, but one thing I dislike of this bug approach is that to reject a patch based on technical reasons is pretty different to reject someone's feed because she/he doesn't have the merits, or other non-technical and more social reasons. Put another way, I would find it uncomfortable to say someone "sorry, you don't belong here", so these situations should be avoided. I think that adding a requirement for the applicant to have someone from the community to sponsor her/his request (similar to the approach used in the Foundation membership) would contribute to avoid these situations most of the times. I personally didn't ask Jeff to include my feed until two or threes gnomie folks bugged me to do so, because I didn't want to feel rejected. If that had happened, I'd had asked these people to back me up. my 2 ¢ from a low profile contributor's POV. Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Día del Software Libre, Curicó http://curico.diadelsoftwarelibre.cl _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
