[csw-maintainers] board vote

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 09.10.2012 um 12:02 schrieb Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
>> This is because you don't seem to be a member of the association:
>>  http://wiki.opencsw.org/open-community-software-project-members
>> Traditionally there has been a distinction of maintainers and members. You
>> can apply
>> informally by writing to board "I want to be a member" and it has never been
>> declined ;-)
>> 
>> @board: Should we unify the process that full maintainers are member by
>> default?
> 
> I would say yes.  I can't think of a situation where we'd like to
> exclude a maintainer from voting by default...and the opposite is easy
> to handle as the maintainer can simply not vote.  The only
> precondition for voting, in my understanding, is that the maintainer
> must have at least one released package...By making these two groups
> overlap almost entirely, we could generate a voting roster with an SQL
> query in the web database which would be nice.
> 
> Ihsan:  I wonder if there is anything in the way the association was
> founded that precludes extending membership by default?

The association can not "grab" you, you must apply for it by yourself. We could
add this to maintainership application that you also apply for the association
which will be granted after release of the first package.


Best regards

  -- Dago


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