On 11/07/2012 10:50 AM, Mitchell Baker wrote:
Wow, this is a great tip. Thanks! I'm temped to adopt it verbatim.
The idea is good, and so is most of the language (I like "emeritus").
Re: verbatim: I don't know that we'd want to tie becoming emeritus to
giving up commit status. In particular, I can imagine some of our less
active module owners being willing to give up that title/role in
exchange for emeritus status, but not necessarily at the cost of no
longer being able to review patches or land them, etc.
Jason
It's great. and I like the idea of open source projects using
standard techniques and practices.
many thanks!
mitchell
On 11/7/12 7:30 PM, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
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
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