Re: [gentoo-nfp] Next meeting; a motion to have 1 type of Gentoo member.

[Matthew Thode]

On 11/07/2016 02:23 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 06:32:59PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
>>    The foundation currently has 1 member type (in the bylaws) but Gentoo
>>    itself still seems to have 2 (Gentoo staff and Ebuild developer)
>>    This motion represents an idea that the community itself would only
>>    have 1 contributor type.
>>    1) Contributors must take the staff quiz (which we should rename to the
>>    contributor quiz.)
>>    2) Contributors are encouraged to be foundation members, but membership
>>    is not required. We may amend the contributor onboarding process to
>>    offer foundation membership at the time they join Gentoo as a
>>    contributor.
>>    3) Contributors that want access to the gentoo ebuild repository still
>>    need to follow the normal recruiting process (ebuild quiz, mentor, 30
>>    day period.)
>>    4) Contributors that do not want access to the gentoo ebuild repository
>>    (because they contribute in other ways) do not need to take the ebuild
>>    quiz. Its unclear if a 30 day grace period is required for non-ebuild
>>    groups.
>>    5) Existing developers and staff are rebranded as contributors.
>>    If approved, I expect a few months of working with comrel to adjust
>>    existing policy documents and recruiting guidelines to implement.
>
> The difference between Staff and Developer is "merely" that a Developer has
> access to the Portage tree (and as such can influence system behavior of
> Gentoo users). Staff are still developers, they work on other aspects of the
> distribution, such as core documentation, infrastructure, release
> engineering, forum maintenance, etc.
>
> I would not appreciate an intake for contributors. Many wiki contributors
> (which offer a wealth of documentation information) would be affected by
> this, which they will see as bureaucratic stuff. Same with proxy maintained
> packages. Those contributors are no staff, yet they provide valuable
> improvements to Gentoo.
>
> If we would want to align Gentoo Project user-types and Foundation, then we
> are moving the project management into Foundation space a bit. Currently,
> the Foundation has always tried not to meddle within this. I am not opposed
> to making things a bit easier for both though (for instance, all staff and
> developers are automatically Gentoo Foundation members).
>
> Wkr,
> 	Sven Vermeulen
>

I hope I'm not putting words in Alec's mouth, but I see this as more of
an optional thing.  Though if mandatory it'd be akin to signing a CLA
(which I'd personally be against as well).

We might be best served by defining what a contributor is.

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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)