Sponsors Feedback about Marco Rodrigues

[Jordan Mantha]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:02 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'd like to ask for your feedback on the work you've done with Marco
> Rodrigues (Kmos). It'd be very nice of you if you would read up on the
> following thread with information about your work with him:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2007-December/000574.html
> 
> To sum the whole story up: Marco has been causing problems in the past
> by filing lots of sync requests and even after explanation by others he
> caused problems in other bug reports and upload requests too.
> 
> Essentially Scott Kitterman proposes to revoke his Ubuntu-related
> Launchpad privileges for now, I have a different, less drastic,
> proposal:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2007-December/000597.html
> 
> It's very important for us to get your feedback to make a decision. Most
> of you have a long track record of working in the OSS world and maybe
> some of you even have a proposal of your own.
> 
> Michael Bienia was kind enough to extract this list of uploads and
> syncs, it might help you to remember what you've worked on with Marco.

In addition to sponsoring the dhelp merge today I also did another merge
sponsorship and acked a sync request from Marco today. Here's my summary
of his work (I only have experience with him in the last week):
  * His work was technically good and pretty accurate. I haven't had any
complaints about the actual debdiffs.
  * His bug reports still need work. They tend to not have much
information about the actual changes. I suggested to him that he needs
to regain his trust with the MOTU by telling us explicitly about the
changes he's making, keeping, and/or dropping so that we can see that he
really understands what he's doing.
  * He seems eager, perhaps a little too much at times, to push changes
upstream. I suggest that he get confirmation that what he's doing is
right before sending bug reports on to Debian and upstream.

Overall my feeling on the subject is this:
1. We give Marco a (last) chance to officially redeem himself by giving
him a probationary period where he is under MOTU scrutiny. Marco commits
to not mass filing bug reports. This should involve tracking also his
bug comments, IRC behavior, etc. If anybody notices something
inappropriate (not asking for perfection, but looking out for disruptive
behavior) a MC member should be notified right away.

2. We re-evaluate at some point, talking into account sponsors (as we
are now) and any problem brought up to the MC during the probationary
period. If things are looking up then I think we should officially
reinstate him as a regular contributor.

3. If the evaluation doesn't go well, then I think we must ask him to no
longer work on Ubuntu. At this point we've given him many chances, lots
of advice, we can't afford to continue spending resources, and it's just
not fruitful for Marco either. I really hope that it doesn't come to
this and optimistically think it won't.

-Jordan