Kubuntu Policies (for council consideration)

[Harald Sitter]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 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.

Page adjusted accordingly.

HS