Proposal: reduce the maxmimum number of applicants per meeting

[Thomas Ward]

I agree with Lukasz, Lucas, and Robie here - we should reduce the number 
of applications we review per meeting. Unlike standard membership boards 
DMB has a more rigorous process to go through to verify people get 
privileges who qualify for, and need, them, which means longer meetings 
and an inability to review *all* applicants.


The only alternative is to extend the length of our meetings, but even 
that won't be a guarantee.


Thomas

On 9/8/22 14:38, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> 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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