I think this is a great idea that has some precedent in the open source community. Here's a link to the Eclipse committer emeritus page.
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/committers-emeritus.php Lawrence ----- Original Message ----- > Over the years we've identified a few specific roles at Mozilla. > These > are described in the Roles and Responsibilities document > (http://www.mozilla.org/about/roles.html). I'd like to update this > document in general to reflect the Mozilla project today. That's a > task > that will take some work and you'll see from me about this in the > coming > months. > > For now, I'm proposing we add a new role or status. I'd like to be > able > to recognize people who have built something at Mozilla and then > passed > on their authority. This will give us a way to describe people > after > it is no longer accurate to say "I'm the module owner" or community > leader or other activities. I'm thinking we'd attach a year to it. > So someone would be something like "[Name of module or similar > activity] > Module Owner Emeritus, 2012.", The year would be the date the person > passed on their leadership to someone else. I'm inclined start with > the > present, and work our way backwards in time. > > We cold make an Emeritus Roll, where we list people, including a link > to > the materials that show *how* and when they passed on their > authority. > This would allow others to learn, and allow us to point to the ones > that > seem the best learning examples as reference material. > > Thoughts? > > Mitchell > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
