Thank you Jörg.
On 2017-01-28 06:16, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
Dear mailing list subscriber, dear Mozillian and friend of Thunderbird,
The next Thunderbird Council election is coming up. The Thunderbird Council is
proposing that this time people eligible to vote and to stand as candidates
need to be on an electoral roll. We propose a very simple measure to include
people on the electoral roll: Dedication to the Thunderbird project as
expressed by contributions. We suggest to include people who over a two year
timespan 2015-2016 have dedicated at least 20 hours to the project.
Contribution can be any of the following: Triaging, fixing or reviewing bugs,
giving support on SUMO or other forums, localising, testing and writing or
reviewing add-ons. Simply subscribing to tb-planning will not give anyone the
right to vote, but active participation in discussions will.
This very simple rule will spare us any complicated metric, like, this many
patches submitted, this many BMO or SUMO comments written, author of add-on
with this many users, etc.
Since we already know the people who are dedicating time, their most precious
asset, to Thunderbird, I have prepared a preliminary electoral roll. So far I
have enrolled about 100 people, see
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Council_Elections_2017. *People who are
not on the preliminary roll can contact me and ask to be included, mentioning
their contribution. The idea is not to make it hard to be on the electoral
roll.*
A few comments:
*This is a proposed list following the proposed rules.* If we decide during the
course of the discussion that we want a different set of rules, the list will
of course change.
Whilst I know contributors who show up on BMO, it is harder to include those
who don't. I don't know all the add-on authors, so I have included the authors
of the most popular add-ons which have had updates during 2015/2016. I also
don't know may support people or localisers. So if your name is not on the
list, please don't take offence, I didn't deliberately ignore or undervalue
your contribution.
For 12 SUMO contributors nominated by fellow councillor Matt Harris I don't
have e-mail addresses. Please supply your e-mail addresses or you won't be able
to vote.
Repeating: *Please self-nominate if I missed to include you!*
Further comments?
I doubt I would self-nominate myself at this point, but I certainly will not
without a reasonable understanding of what the Thunderbird Council does. The
closest to a description which I found is the second table in
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird
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Filipus Klutiero
http://www.philippecloutier.com
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