Mozilla decided to move to gApps for their mail after we had this discussion. That should remove some blockers on the technical side. Also there is a new participation team that is doing more work on defining and recognizing contributors, which was a blocker on the process side. It seems like we're at least in a much better place to actually see movement on this now than we were a year ago.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Regnard Raquedan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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
