On 31/01/13 00:22, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:36:19AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: >> The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to restaff for the >> four members whose terms are expiring. The Developer Membership Board is >> responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It >> evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them >> with developer privileges. There are seven candidates: > >> Benjamin Drung (bdrung) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BenjaminDrung >> Bhavani Shankar (coolbhavi) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BhavaniShankar >> Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodySomerville >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox) >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitrijsLedkovs/DMBApplication >> Iain Lane (Laney) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane/DMB2013 >> Scott Kitterman (ScottK) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottKitterman >> Stéphane Graber (stgraber) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stgraber > > So my question to each of the candidates is this. As a member of the DMB, > what would you do to remove this uncertainty around when people are ready to > apply, reducing the number of rejections (whether those are hard rejects, or > soft "redirects") at DMB meetings? >
A prospective developer is ready to apply when one gets an endorsement from a core-dev for a particular developer membership level. This is not dis-similar to Debian New Member process where a DD advocates one's application. I'd like to use devel-permissions mailing list to discuss applications with applicants, DMB and subscribers to devel-permissions mailing list. This should reduce the number of rejections and/or downgrades, hopefully not make meetings over-run, as well as allow to further scrutinize applications. In his application, Iain mentions that DMB should "sumamrise the reasons any candidates are not accepted on a public mailing list" [1]. I'd rather also raise concerns on the public mailing list with the applicant, before the meeting and before the decision has already been made. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane/DMB2013 -- Regards, Dmitrijs.
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