Minutes from Developer Membership Board Meeting 2013-01-07

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Sebastien (2013.01.21_20:27:29_+0200)
> >Upload rights at the moment conflate membership and upload rights.
> >Therefore, the board has to evaluate the qualifications for both.
> 
> Right, Bjoern is applying for upload right so it seems logical he
> gets reviewed in context of upload rights...

Upload rights currently go with membership, so applicants have to be
reviewed in the context of both. We'll tell the applicant, if we think
granting membership would be hard, or if we think upload rights aren't
suitable yet and they should be applying for membership only.

> >We will be sending Bjoern an E-Mail explaining our concerns and ways
> >that he can address them.
> When is that planned? He still didn't get those, we still have no
> clue what to change,

As soon as we can. And I think the idea of looking for things to change
is short-sighted. If we don't think someone is ready, it usually means
they need to do some more good distro work, and show that they are
ready.

> and meanwhile he has a SRU and a raring update blocked waiting...

Nobody is blocked from working on Ubuntu, without upload rights. That's
what sponsorship is for - if you don't have upload rights, you prepare
an upload and find someone who has the upload rights to sponsor your
upload. In this case, besides his usual sponsors, bdrung has offered to
review and sponsor libreoffice uploads, which is he has already been
working on. Stéphane also provided some feedback yesterday.

> 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?

I was absent from the meeting that declined his application, but I
wouldn't agree with your synopsis of the reasoning behind it. I think
the reasons are wider, and we'll do our best to explain them in a
private e-mail to him.

SR

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