On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:24 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 19:41 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > >> 4) CLA completion and being part of atleast one specific Fedora group > > >> like say Fedora Extras must be a requirement. Not everybody who has > > >> signed the CLA has provided any meaningful contributions and thus are > > >> not in the group of actual Fedora contributors. Having merely the CLA as > > >> a requirement might be abused. > > > > > > How do we define being "part of" a group? Number of CVS commits? > > > Number of emails posted to a list? Time on IRC? If you can provide an > > > objective standard for this criterion, let's discuss it. > > > > Part of any Fedora group in the accounts system. > > One way to measure is to require activity as an elected member of a > sub-project committee, such as FESCO or FDSCo. > > Perhaps each sub-project could have a way of qualifying. Number of > packages owned or reviewed; documents written, edited, or translated; > events attended as an Ambassador; etc. > > Or do we specifically want to allow for the possibility of a disruptive > election that can bring in dilettantes who only know how to campaign for > votes? While I totally appreciate the idea, I'm not sure it's a real scary concern. Just look at the FESCo election turnout, and the impact that FE has had on the project as a whole. I would think (and hope) the people who aren't involved aren't going to get any votes for steering committee membership, much less the board. The community's made up, by and large, of fairly intelligent individuals who aren't likely to be swayed by campaigners. (After all, what are they going to promise me that I can't provide for myself?) And how do we capture people who took the time to get an account, only occasionally post or Wiki, yet promote Fedora actively and quietly on their own? What about people who help on IRC #fedora exclusively? I think this would layer significant drag on the subprojects for very little return. Plus I would call voting rights the real test of a democracy's commitment to its populace. We don't want to base those rights on property ownership or "I have given more to the cause than you, comrade." That's what subproject leadership is for! (I mean that in a good way. There *is* a good way, right?) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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