Proposal: reduce the maxmimum number of applicants per meeting

[Lucas Kanashiro]

I agree with Lukasz. Let's make sure this will not  become an issue to the
applicants. +1 for Robie's proposal.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:39 AM Lukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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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