On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Michael Bienia <mich...@bienia.de> wrote: > This leads to the next question: how much do you trust the person > writing the endorsement?
I would think that most people who are entrusted with membership understand the responsibilities involved when writing an endorsement based on their area of responsibility. When I write endorsements I specifically don't endorse based on areas I'm not familiar with, I usually fill in the community-contributed work the person has done. This helps "round out" the person's application. I suspect the membership councils take this into account given their specific area; I would expect my endorsement of someone's technical work for core-dev would be out of character and questioned, for example. > Of course I trust endorsements from long-standing dev members with a > great reputation where I trust their ability to judge the packaging > skills and trustworthiness of the applicant. But should I apply the same > trust to e.g. a dev member who got accepted himself a month ago? This is also why having multiple endorsements is a good idea. If someone was just started excessively writing +1's (or -1's) then the community would quickly recognize that and adjust accordingly. We have multiple people writing endorsements, so I don't think this is really an issue. From my observations people who attain membership in a certain team are more keen to get the work done that previously required more work (yay!) than they are to start writing endorsements. I also think that by the time someone is ready to apply that it's the applicant seeking out endorsements, I don't suspect that new members are trudging through applications just to write endorsements. > In most cases all I've got are a couple lines in a endorsement from > persons I've worked with to different degrees and who have a different > amount of reputation. As I've never met anyone from the dev community in > person till now, it makes it harder to build up a trust relationship to > them. Yeah this can be tricky but in the end it's a judgement call. I've endorsed people I've never met personally based on not only my experience with them but also how they interact with their peers. I try not to look /too/ much into it, ideally the person's work stands on its own. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel