Hello, On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:33 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > Currently, I am the primary reviewer of applications to join the Ubuntu > Bug Control team. However, I have concerns that this won't scale well > and that I am not getting back to every applicant in a timely process. > Subsequently, I wanted to start a discussion about how we as a team can > work together to review these applications and hopefully increase the > membership in the team! > > James Westby and I had a hallway discussion about this at UDS Intrepid > and I recall the following from it. Please correct me where necessary > James. > > Applications would be sent to this mailing list instead of to me > directly. This would require someone to moderate the post, in a timely > fashion, since the applicant is not a member.
This is what i suggested when the ubuntu-bugcontrol ML was created, but IIRC it wasn't possible to do at that moment. I have no problem in moderate the queue during the hours I'm online :-). > > After the application is received two or three positive endorsements of > the applicant will be required for their approval in the team. Yes a vote of majority is enough there (being 2 votes now). > Additionally, the review process should be limited to a one week > (calendar) period after the application has posted to the mailing list. > In addition a negative review of the application may require a meeting > discussing the review and why it was the reviewed that way. I say may > because if the applicant hasn't done a sufficient amount of triaging > that should be reason enough to deny their membership at that point in > time. > > In the event that an application receives a negative review they'll be > given feedback as to why it was rejected and what they can work on. > After a period of two or four weeks they'd be welcome to apply again. > > If an application is approved the applicant would be granted membership > in the team for a period of three months. This three month period is > designed to expire non-active members in the team. > > After the three month period the new member can just ping a team > administrator to have their membership extended. The renew of the memberships is always 3 months? If we renew for a second time the membership of a member, wouldn't make more sense to extend that period to ~6 months? (Asking for core members case) > > Another benefit of performing the review on this mailing list is that > the mailing list has a public archive which everyone could peruse to > observe the process of their application and any feedback. > > I welcome any feedback and comments regarding the proposed process. > Additionally, there should be a separate discussion as to the criteria > to use when evaluating applications. I'll send another e-mail about > that this week. > Great!, thanks for sent this. Regards, pedro. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
