DMB: Proposal for a different review process

[Chase Douglas]

On 08/03/2011 11:43 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Chase Douglas
> <chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I don't think the DMB process is an important piece of community
>> socialization at all. I doubt many people pay attention to it if they
>> don't have a specific need to. There are much better and more important
>> social pieces of Ubuntu. I just want to make this piece as painless as
>> possible.
> 
> I can think of one case where seeing the social interactions between
> an applicant and board members in a meeting *should* have put up big
> red flags around that applicant. Apparently they weren't big enough,
> but he's gone now, and you can probably guess who I mean. Those red
> flags, if they were being noticed, would have been the usefully
> "social" part of the meeting.

Perhaps, but there are two issues:

1. I guess the red flags weren't seen, so the process didn't actually help
2. If the DMB allows email applications in lieu of board meetings, then
the point is moot

What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or
is it only under specific circumstances?

-- Chase