while moving wiki pages it struck me as very odd that we *require* people to start a wiki page on their person, detailing their past achivements and so forth.
upon thinking about it for a bit I came to conclude that this is a bit of a silly requirement and having talked about it briefly on IRC there was some agreement on this. why is it silly? because people will most likely not update it. so it very much is part of the candidacy but after that it just stays there and rots away containing ever so incomplete and/or outdated information. what to do instead? as JR mentioned on IRC, the information in general is handy for the candidate review. so, dropping that requirement entirely probably isn't an option. instead I would like to propose to change it to a free-form "write about your past deeds and future plans on a suitable web medium" (albeit, more words than that :P) how so? to us it does not matter whether the information is on the wiki, or on launchpad, or a personal blog, or linkedin, or 3000 twitter posts (well, actually that might count as a not suitable medium ;)). so, requiring someone to create information where they perhaps do not want to have it and/or won't maintain it doesn't make aaaaaaaaaany sense. instead people should write about their awesomeness where they feel this information should reside. testimonials... for some reason additionally testimonials are suggested/required/necessary/cool, usually people would probably ditch them at the wiki page. alas, that does only happen after the candidate asks for a testimonial anyway, so whether he asks them to write on a wiki page or send them a mail with the testimonial makes no difference. any thoughts? HS -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
