Hey Benjamin, I was pretty active in this discussion LAST YEAR and I pretty much gave up in championing the mozilla.org email address on the understanding that it's recognition Mozilla is not willing to give any time soon.
Here's what I wrote almost one year ago: "I'm also getting the impression that from Mozilla's perspective, mozilla.org email addresses have such a premium that just giving it to Core Contributors would wreck the current economics of rewards and recognition. " On Monday, 28 September 2015, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > To be totally honest it seems disappointing that were still blocked on > this. One issue I do see is we haven't defined a Mozillian well and new > hires are vouched as Mozillians instantly and new volunteers can be vouched > easily. > > Vouched Mozillians status has kind of been watered down if you compare it > to other open source projects membership or vouching models. See Ubuntu > Membership, Debian Developer, Gnome Membership, LibreOffice Membership. > > Across the open source ecosystem you have to have sustained contributions > for months generally or years to earn a status. In Mozilla its handed out > nearly instantly and this is not good for a number of reasons. > > We need leadership support here though we need Mitchell, Chris, Mark and IT > Leadership to support this. > > This is the biggest blocker and if we can get their support I'm sure > Participation Team, WPR and IT can figure out a policy and process. > > On Sep 28, 2015 8:55 AM, "Gareth Aye" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We talked about this for over a year and there were clearly a lot of good > reasons to help people who have been active contributors but aren't (or are > no longer) employed by Mozilla identify with the project. I won't always be > employed by Mozilla, but it would be meaningful to me to have a long-term > Mozilla "identity" when I move on professionally. The issues related to > cost and authenticity seem surmountable. Can we really not find a way to > work this out? > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- *Regnard Raquedan, MBA, MSc.* http://weboplex.com @regnard <https://twitter.com/regnard> _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
