On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:36:19AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: >> The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to restaff for the >> four members whose terms are expiring. The Developer Membership Board is >> responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It >> evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them >> with developer privileges. There are seven candidates: > >> Benjamin Drung (bdrung) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BenjaminDrung >> Bhavani Shankar (coolbhavi) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BhavaniShankar >> Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodySomerville >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox) >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitrijsLedkovs/DMBApplication >> Iain Lane (Laney) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane/DMB2013 >> Scott Kitterman (ScottK) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottKitterman >> Stéphane Graber (stgraber) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stgraber > > So my question to each of the candidates is this. As a member of the DMB, > what would you do to remove this uncertainty around when people are ready to > apply, reducing the number of rejections (whether those are hard rejects, or > soft "redirects") at DMB meetings? >
Hello Steve, What I believe is a perspective developer gets ready for applying at a particular level when a minimum of one developer of ranks of core dev believes that the applicant is ready for a particular level of upload rights and having more than one of them vouching for the applicants' skills does no harm. I have been working with the ubuntu developer advisory team a fair bit, reaching out to contributors, helping them by providing pointers in their interested area of ubuntu development, helping contributors in preparing their wiki page for the DMB meeting once they seem to be ready and also reaching out to contributors who have gone inactive over a period of time (maybe due to lack of time or lack of motivation due to rejection of application by DMB for instances) and collecting their feedback and motivating them. Ofcourse, as you mentioned, the developers who are on the board would have their own thoughts about the applicant and what I would not do is to point out any shortcomings on a public list (which I am presuming that it would be viewable to the entire world), simply because it would give raise to the concern of motivation level drop for an applicant (if feedback given is not taken in the right sense and right manner). What I would do is if I deem to see an application incomplete or perhaps a bit early to apply to the particular set of upload rights, I would simply abstain with a short explanation and then catch up with the applicant privately on a detailed view of what I thought of his application, his positives and why I exactly thought his application was incomplete, So that it enables him to focus on the shortcomings and hone his strengths even better. In short, I would rather prefer to a soft redirect, considering the applicants' work with the passion and motivation factor that comes into picture when contributing to an open source environment. Regards, -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
