[csw-maintainers] board vote

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Tue Oct 9 19:30:57 CEST 2012


Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Maybe we should make it so that you're not applying to be a maintainer
> at all.  You're applying to be a member which grants the rights to be
> a maintainer?  It's a change in the semantics of an application.  This
> would remove the distinction almost entirely, which I think would be a
> good thing.
>
> Does anyone see an issue with such a change?

I think that an active maintainer can apply for membership which grants
the right of vote in the foundation. It must be a voluntary adhesion and
not a by default one.
-- 
Peter


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