Re: Astonishment

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

This is not that complicated.

GNOME is defined as the modules on the release team's list of modules.
To be a member you have to have contributed to these modules.

According to the membership page, "Renewal applications will be
reviewed according to the same standards outlined above for an initial
membership, and must generally be supported by recent or ongoing
contributions to GNOME."


There's some clarification needed (defining "recent," explicitly
defining GNOME as the module list) but the intent is clear: recent
contribution to software on the module list means you are a
member. The idea is definitely to have active project contributors as
members, and everyone else as not members.


In any case, if you don't agree with a membership committee decision,
there is a clear process for handling that, on
http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-policy.html

Does that say "change your own entry in CVS"? Does it say "start
stupid flamewar on foundation-list"?

No it does not.

The board should clarify the membership requirements a bit, but in the
meantime, things would work JUST FINE if people would follow the
instructions.

The membership committee isn't made up of people who have been in the
GNOME clique for 6 years; and it shouldn't have to be made up of such
people. No one should be above helping them out and showing some
respect by following some simple instructions on a web page.

Havoc