Re: Some thoughts about some things

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Hey there,

> Ghee, you wondered if you should approve/reject applications from Sun
> employees. If you think that one of these applications should be
> rejected, I think it's ok that you reject it. For the other ones, it may
> be better that you don't approve them if we want to show that the
> committee is not biased. However, I wonder if this will be useful.
> Glynn, what's your experience with that ?

Well, when I was mostly on my own for a while, I had little choice in
proccessing some of the applications. I did find it pretty hard to be
objective about the applications - but according to the new guidelines,
I see no reason why we don't accept all of them. The reality is that
they seem to be working on GNOME full time. I agree with all of Ghee's
suggestions in his follow up mail.

As far as the Sun Beijing applications go, I must confess that I don't
know many of them terribly well. From what I understand, they have been
doing some incredible accessibility work on Mozilla, using the Atk
interfaces. I think they may also be soon involved in some Evolution
work - judging by their applications.

> I looked at the latest applications. It seems the last two came after we
> close the applications for elections (October 31th, 23:59 UTC). But I
> feel that we could accept that these guys (if approved) vote this year:
> I'm sure that, in their mind, they were not late. What do you think ?

Sounds okay to me.

> Now, the biggest problem: in 25 hours, we will stop accepting new
> candidacies for the elections. Right now, we have 6 official
> candidacies, Hadess' candidacy (he didn't send a summary to
> elections gnome org, but it's not a real problem), and soon Jeff's
> candidacy. That's a total of only 8. Jeff proposed "to add some more
> time to the process". I would like to avoid this, but it may be
> necessary. What's your advice on this ? Mine is that we could be opened
> for new candidates until Friday evening (Nov 8th) if we don't have
> enough candidates. But I'd really like to avoid this...

I think we should come to a decision when the deadline is complete.
Without enough candidates there really wouldn't be much of an election
proccess - I'd much rather see enough time for candidates to apply,
especially since the deadline is a Monday, which perhaps probably wasn't
terribly suitable - my fault on this one I guess :/

                        Thanks,
                                Glynn :)