Kubuntu Policies (for council consideration)

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Feb 24 18:09:58 UTC 2014


On Monday, February 24, 2014 16:55:35 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > ~kubuntu-members -> changed 6 months to "significant and sustained"
> >
> > 
> >
> > ^ IMHO we really should have a hard value there, if 6 months seems to
> > long then perhaps 3 might be more acceptable, but I think a lot of the
> > recent candidates had a hard time knowing when exactly their
> > contirbution was sustained enough. the significance of things are hard
> > to define anyway, but one hard value seems better than a requirement
> > jellyfish.
> 
> I'd prefer 3 months because I don't want to make it too hard to get
> membership, we should make it pretty easy to make people feel part of
> the gang.  On the other hand I just checked Ubuntu which does say 6
> months https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/NewMember

Since we are granting Ubuntu membership, I think the formal requirement needs 
to be the same.  My revised recommendation is we just copy from the Ubuntu 
requirements and say:

> We look for sustained and significant contributions. While there is no
> precise period that we look for, it is rare for applications to be accepted
> from people contributing for less than 6 months.

We can decide how rare rare needs to be on a case  by case basis.

Scott K



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