"Romain d'Alverny" <[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-10-06 > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 20:42, Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > > In technical things I support two or more levels. There's much to learn > > for little community packagers as myself as there is in any field for > > the newcommers. > But in last resort, not only involved, but committed people get a > decisive voice. In teams, those committed people are those who were > recognized as such by their peers, through the mentoring process. > > Which process is not an exclusive one (keep "bad" newcomers out), but > an inclusive one (welcome and train them before they get full hands on > the infrastructure). And that, again, wouldn't prevent non-'masters' > and 'non-apprentices' to provide/contribute something to the project, > only should it be reviewed and committed to the project by those team > members. As said before. There is no problem with having "masters" and "padawans" (I would prefer that term to apprentice :D ) when it comestotechnical decisions. I hope that all (orat least most) people involvedin mageia will let the people with the technical knowledge do the technical decisions (althoug some discussions on the mls do read different). I do understand and support the need for reviewing the work ofnew packagers, correcting it and teaching those new packagers how to build better packages but that is - as I said - a technical decision, in which nothing at all can be said against a master-padawan-thing. Even if those new packagers have builtrpms for years (because I have seen quite some rpms fromlocal communities whose spec files made me shudder). But I do believe, when it comes to policy decisions (like electing board members and so on) there should not be those who have a vote and those whodoesn't. Certainly there must be some kind of differentiation between active community members and passers-by who just want to "troll vote". But as you described it initially, a majority of the active community members (like those poor folks who did community work for years now in their local communities) would be excluded from deciding the directionthe community as a whole does take.
Oliver
