Re: Membership for Alexander Gabriel - status?

[Bruno Boaventura <brunoboaventura gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Federico Mena
Quintero<federico novell com> wrote:
> Dear membership team,

Hi Federico!

> Alexander Gabriel (one of the Zeitgeist hackers) just asked me about his
> membership status.  I told him to look in
> http://www.gnome.org/rt3-stats/membership.html (it took some hunting to
> find that URL), but there are several problems:
>
> * After submitting his application for membership, Alex got the default
> mail saying "your request was received".  However, the mail didn't come
> with an RT3 ticket number.  Alex then has no way to track the status of
> his request.

The "auto-relply" mail can be at his SPAM box. It happen all the time
and I don't know why.
His ticket number is 8907.

> * That rt3-stats page requires a username/password to view any of the
> entries, so you can't try to find your application by simply clicking
> through each of the available links.

Unfortunately, RT only let people logged in to access the information.

> * It's kind of hard to find the RT3 information, anyway.  I already knew
> that live.gnome.org has something with "Membership" in the page title,
> but newcomers shouldn't have to guess that...

The easier way is ask here on membership-committee AT gnome DOT org

> So, I have two questions for you :)
>
> 1. What is the status of Alex's application?

His application is waiting reply from his contacts (you and Seif Lotfy).
I was away due some problems. Sorry about the long delay.

> 2. Is there a chance of resolving those usability/transparency problems
> rather quickly?  This is a recurring problem which seems easy to solve.

As I said, the easier way to do it is ask Membership Committee by mail.

I hope it helped.

At your service,

Bruno Boaventura
GNOME Foundation Membership Committee