On Monday, 16 August 2021 23:39:10 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dissabte, 14 d’agost de 2021, a les 12:48:55 (CEST), Paul Brown va escriure: > > > Paul, any feedback on this? > > > > Volunteers and paid employees are not the same thing. Joseph (like Aniqa, > > Allyson, Adam and myself) has been vetted in the selection process we all > > had to go through when applying for the job. Maybe you can consult with > > the Board and see if Joseph's background checks out. > > The board has no special control over who gets a committer account or not. I said you can check with the Board Joseph's background. I said nothing about the Board having any control over who gets a committer account. > > Plus, if we misbehave, we can be fired quickly and painlessly by the e.V.: > > we are contractors, not staff, and are all literally always 10 days away > > from being sacked without any kind of compensation, losing a substantial > > chunk of our livelihood. > > KDE committer accounts are not linked to people's particular employer or > employment status. > > In the event that any of KDE e.V. board contractors would not be contracted > anymore they would obviously keep their KDE committer account. If a person behaves badly, sysadmin can rescind their account. If a KDE e.V. employee gets fired, there may be reasons to do this. -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde