Proposal: reduce the maxmimum number of applicants per meeting

[Lukasz Zemczak]

I think I would be +1 on this proposition. Come to think of it, we had
issues with our meetings running over since a long time - previously
for a bit of a 'worse' reason than now, as in the past the problem was
DMB members responding very slowly on IRC. Current membership board is
more responsive, but indeed it seems that sometimes the one-hour is
not enough to get a thorough review of a candidate. Seeing that we do
not have 2+ applications per day too frequently, this feels like a
good compromise for now.
But we should keep a look-out for situations where we see there's a
lot of interest and this starting to become a bottleneck for
applicants.

Cheers,

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 22:18, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Today we handled the resumption of Frank's application, which was
> postponed because we ran out of time at his previous application
> meeting. Joshua was next, but we had to postpone his application because
> we ran out of time finish the handling for Frank's application (it
> didn't conclude, but to be fair, today's a public holiday in the US).
>
> Currently https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Agenda says:
>
>     The Developer Membership Board will consider a maximum of two
>     applicants per meeting. If there are already two applicants for the
>     next meeting, please add yourself to the agenda and specify the date
>     of the next meeting with fewer than two candidates that you will
>     attend.
>
> I propose to reduce this to one, because we seem to keep letting
> candidates down, and they're going out of their way to make the meetings
> that can be at awkward times for them. My feeling is that we won't run
> out of scheduled meeting time to handle applications, and in any case
> it's not like scheduling fewer applicants per meeting will make more
> overall meeting time available.
>
> Robie
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