thanks for all of the effort, great work 2017-08-08 13:30 GMT+08:00 Swapnil Kulkarni <cools...@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > Due to improvements in the OpenStack Foundation member directory and > > our technical election tooling, it is no longer necessary to join > > the foundation as an individual member just to be able to submit > > changes through Gerrit for official repositories. You do, however, > > still eventually need to join if you want to be able to participate > > in technical elections (as a candidate or a voter). > > > > The Account Setup section[1] of the Developer's Guide has been > > updated to reflect the new simpler process, and a separate > > (optional) Eligibility to Vote in Elections section[2] has been > > added. This process change significantly simplifies the onboarding > > process for new code contributors by removing a very error-prone > > and, for many, eyebrow-raising hurdle. > > > > A little background: the Bylaws of the OpenStack Foundation Appendix > > 4 Technical Committee Member Policy[3] (section 3b) limits voter > > rolls for technical elections to Foundation Individual Members. It > > was never strictly required by policy to join the foundation if you > > only wanted to contribute code and had no interest in voting, which > > is not an entirely uncommon case for new contributors. Due to > > previous technical limitations in our systems we still forced new > > contributors to join, because that was the easiest way at the time > > to be relatively certain who was qualified to participate in > > technical elections. Now that we have a mechanism for verifying > > membership on demand when validating nominations and generating > > voter rolls, we have made the step of joining the foundation > > optional (though still very much recommended once you reach the > > point as a contributor where you want to participate in community > > governance processes). > > > > [1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html# > account-setup > > [2] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html# > eligibility-to-vote-in-elections > > [3] https://www.openstack.org/legal/technical-committee-member-policy/ > > -- > > Jeremy Stanley > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > ______________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject: > unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > Great, excellent step to reduce barrier to entry. Kudos! > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- ChangBo Guo(gcb)
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