Due to improvements in the OpenStack Foundation member directory and our technical election tooling, it is no longer necessary to join the foundation as an individual member just to be able to submit changes through Gerrit for official repositories. You do, however, still eventually need to join if you want to be able to participate in technical elections (as a candidate or a voter).
The Account Setup section[1] of the Developer's Guide has been updated to reflect the new simpler process, and a separate (optional) Eligibility to Vote in Elections section[2] has been added. This process change significantly simplifies the onboarding process for new code contributors by removing a very error-prone and, for many, eyebrow-raising hurdle. A little background: the Bylaws of the OpenStack Foundation Appendix 4 Technical Committee Member Policy[3] (section 3b) limits voter rolls for technical elections to Foundation Individual Members. It was never strictly required by policy to join the foundation if you only wanted to contribute code and had no interest in voting, which is not an entirely uncommon case for new contributors. Due to previous technical limitations in our systems we still forced new contributors to join, because that was the easiest way at the time to be relatively certain who was qualified to participate in technical elections. Now that we have a mechanism for verifying membership on demand when validating nominations and generating voter rolls, we have made the step of joining the foundation optional (though still very much recommended once you reach the point as a contributor where you want to participate in community governance processes). [1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#account-setup [2] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#eligibility-to-vote-in-elections [3] https://www.openstack.org/legal/technical-committee-member-policy/ -- Jeremy Stanley
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