Call for votes: Developer Membership Board restaffing

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 31/01/13 00:22, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:36:19AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote:
>> The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to restaff for the
>> four members whose terms are expiring. The Developer Membership Board is
>> responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It
>> evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them
>> with developer privileges. There are seven candidates:
> 
>>     Benjamin Drung (bdrung) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BenjaminDrung
>>     Bhavani Shankar (coolbhavi) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BhavaniShankar
>>     Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodySomerville
>>     Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitrijsLedkovs/DMBApplication
>>     Iain Lane (Laney) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane/DMB2013
>>     Scott Kitterman (ScottK) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottKitterman
>>     Stéphane Graber (stgraber) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stgraber
> 
> So my question to each of the candidates is this.  As a member of the DMB,
> what would you do to remove this uncertainty around when people are ready to
> apply, reducing the number of rejections (whether those are hard rejects, or
> soft "redirects") at DMB meetings?
> 

A prospective developer is ready to apply when one gets an endorsement
from a core-dev for a particular developer membership level. This is not
dis-similar to Debian New Member process where a DD advocates one's
application.

I'd like to use devel-permissions mailing list to discuss applications
with applicants, DMB and subscribers to devel-permissions mailing list.
This should reduce the number of rejections and/or downgrades, hopefully
not make meetings over-run, as well as allow to further scrutinize
applications.

In his application, Iain mentions that DMB should "sumamrise the reasons
any candidates are not accepted on a public mailing list" [1]. I'd
rather also raise concerns on the public mailing list with the
applicant, before the meeting and before the decision has already been made.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane/DMB2013

-- 
Regards,
Dmitrijs.

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