DMB: Proposal for a different review process

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 09:33 -0700 schrieb Chase Douglas:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday I attempted to attend a DMB meeting, but unfortunately only
> two members showed so there wasn't a quorum. I think I've been to about
> an equal number of meetings where quorum has and has not been reached
> :(. This led me to think that there must be a better way to handle DMB
> proceedings.
> 
> My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for
> evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Create a
> project (maybe "ubuntu-developer-membership") and then have people open
> bugs when they have something to bring up before the board. Here's an
> example of a bug I would create for this:

so you would turn a very important piece of community socialization into
a plain formal buerocratic process, sorry but that doesnt feel like
"linux for human beings" ...

the meetings and direct conversation are an essential social bit of the
membership process. while i agree there should be fallbacks for special
cases so that people *can* use mail or special web forms if needed,
using such a process as default to me looks like we moving away from our
spirit completely ...

please dont turn the processes into unpersonal bruerocracy, while that
works for many things i still like to think of ubuntus community as
something that can do better and impose humanity towards others (since
we still advertise that), especially for such an important step like
entering said community.

ciao
	oli