DMB: Proposal for a different review process

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 3 August 2011 11:47, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Chase Douglas
> <chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
>> The issue with the email voting is two-fold:
>>
>> 1. It's not advertised anywhere. I didn't know it was possible until it
>> was mentioned yesterday. This is easy to fix.
>> 2. As mentioned yesterday, there's the possibility that applications
>> fall through the cracks.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/Agenda
> Normally applications are numbered for the order they'll come up at a
> meeting. (E) means they're being processed by email instead. 3 were
> done this way in March/April when attempting to catch up the giant
> backlog we inherited from the old DMB and accidentally built upon with
> the bad meeting time in March.

An issue is that applicants are not aware that email is an option and
it's unclear whether the board considers it to be as valid an option
as the IRC meeting.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess
says "Attend the meeting" as the final requirement.