myriam expired from team

[Harald Sitter]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, May 14, 2011 01:17:44 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Myriam Schweingruber
>>
>> <myriam at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 07:20, Kubuntu Members <noreply at launchpad.net>
> wrote:
>> >> Hello Myriam Schweingruber,
>> >>
>> >> Your membership in the Kubuntu Members (kubuntu-members) team has
>> >> expired.
>> >> <https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members>
>> >
>> > /me cries
>> >
>> > That was an omission of mine, I was moving house and traveling back
>> > and forth between Germany and Switzerland several times in the last
>> > weeks and I simply missed these mails. Can this be reactivated,
>> > please?
>>
>> This is not sufficiently specified actually.
>> In the past we have done re-interviewing if I am not mistaken. I
>> personally could also imagine that a council member proposes immediate
>> vote on this matter, given the missing specification of what to do and
>> the reasonable explanation.
>>
>> That said, if we should have to re-interview I'd like to specify the
>> proper procedure for this in the same meeting. Maybe someone could ask
>> how other councils handle this?
>
> My understanding is that the distinction is between someone who is currently
> active and misses the mail versus someone who has not been active who wants to
> resume being active.  If someone is active in the community, I see no reason
> to require an interview just because they missed a mail.

Yes, but you cannot reflect this properly in a simple rule. Like if
someone is clearly active and missed the mails and only notices past
the 2 week grace period, then the required interview could be as short
as simply having the council vote.

I do not think a single council member should be the judge of current
activity though... this could cause all sorts of social problems if
one messes up. Hence I feel that clearly defining what to do is
necessary, so that any given point a council member can act within a
defined range of possibilities, thus lifting the decision from one
individual alone.

regards,
Harald