Minutes from Developer Membership Board Meeting 2013-01-07

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le 21/01/2013 17:51, Micah Gersten a écrit :
> Upload rights at the moment conflate membership and upload rights.
> Therefore, the board has to evaluate the qualifications for both. We do
> not, in general, feel that it is fair to publicly enumerate the issues

Right, Bjoern is applying for upload right so it seems logical he gets 
reviewed in context of upload rights...

> we have with individual applications, preferring to express our public
> concerns in general terms and be more specific in private. We will be
> sending Bjoern an E-Mail explaining our concerns and ways that he can
> address them.
> If he wants, he can choose to share it with anyone after that.
When is that planned? He still didn't get those, we still have no clue 
what to change, and meanwhile he has a SRU and a raring update blocked 
waiting...

> It is not an easy job sitting on a governance board. You're responsible
> for evaluating the work of friends and, sometimes, co-workers. While
> trying not to hurt feelings or block people's ability to do things, one
> also has a responsibility to put personal feelings aside and to consider
> the applications received in the context of the wider project.
>
> We always try to be constructive when giving rejections, but it is a
> difficult area that we will always be able to improve on. We never take
> any decision lightly — especially not rejections — as we are aware of
> the negativity they can generate. Most of us are readily available to
> discuss and guide applicants. Please find us [1] on IRC if you have any
> questions.
>
>
I appreciate that the job is not easy, your reply doesn't address the 
concerns I raised in my initial email though. We still have a community 
member who has been working full time on maintaining a difficult package 
for 1.5+ years, got endorsement from 3 members, and he got rejected 
mostly for "lack of devel releases" and an wrong assumption (no review) 
... isn't the project just making the bar too high to join there?

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher