Re: Can we improve things?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:05 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote:

> Put another way, I would find it uncomfortable to say someone "sorry,
> you don't belong here", so these situations should be avoided.
> 
> I think that adding a requirement for the applicant to have someone from
> the community to sponsor her/his request (similar to the approach used
> in the Foundation membership) would contribute to avoid these situations
> most of the times.

Sure.  So we say,

"Create a bug under the Planet module.  CC your sponsor, and in the
initial comment write, "<sponsorname>, I want to be added to planet.
Can you please vouch for me?"

The sponsor then goes and adds a comment, "this human has been working
on $cool_project and has been blogging about it (or other GNOME-related
activities); his blog should definitely be syndicated on Planet".

  Federico