On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16/12/14 16:34, Mike Hoye wrote: > > I think that the case the Reps make - broadly speaking that enabling > > community leadership is a thing we want and that a mozilla.org email > > address can lend weight and legitimacy to those efforts - is compelling. > > I think a better question than "should the Reps have m.o addresses" is > > "do the Reps have an effective governance model". > > I think they do; that's not a question for me. In one sense, Reps is the > easy part. > > > - Reps Council be empowered to nominate people to have an appropriate > > Mozilla.org email addresses. > > Does that scale? (I think Majken basically asked this question too.) > > I think it does are requests going to be handled overnight? No but will the council scale to handling them I think so. I think also there could be a feedback process from mentors making it easier for requests to be handled. > > > - With the module peers' assent those addresses be granted for the > > duration of that person's active participation in the Reps, and that > > An ephemeral email address is far less useful. I'm sure people step down > from being reps for reasons other than no longer being involved with > Mozilla. If we have the ability to remove in case of abuse, > > I agree but I would say this gets the foot in the door and after the pilot is done and as policy is expanded to other contributors the expiration based on rep participation could be removed. > > > - Council and module peers be responsible for usage guidelines, > > policing, etc, with final approval resting with the module owner. > > Thing is, this makes it seem like @mozilla.org email addresses will > remain a reps-only thing. Is that what you are saying? How do we expand > past reps? Not every core volunteer Mozillian can be or wants to be a rep. > I think that would be negative as I am already concerned that we tie some many resources to reps that contributors in other areas of the project cannot access. So it is an equity of resources issue. If we move forward I would suggest having the pilot have an end date by which point council could propose a broader framework. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
