Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation membership and who can join

[Ian Stakenvicius]

On 14/10/16 10:04 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o
> <mailto:axs@g.o>> wrote:
>
>     On 14/10/16 09:46 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>     > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com <mailto:shentino@×××××.com>> wrote:
>     >> That's why I made my own proposal.
>     >>
>     >> class supporter
>     >
>     > If you change supporter to always be a foundation member (ie make
>     > membership activation/removal simultaneous with instantiation) it
>     > could work.  However, I still question the need for a 3rd tier.
>
>     My C++ is a little rusty but if I'm reading it right, all the
>     'supporter' class does is provide a container of inheritance that (a)
>     allows you to revoke everything when someone stops being a supporter
>     (or stops agreeing to the COC), and (b) allows the separation of
>     foundation-member from the dev and staff classes.  It also seems to
>     allow there to be foundation members that are neither staff nor dev's.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
>     So it's not a class that would be instantiated in and of itself I
>     don't think.
>
>
> It is an abstract virtual base class...virtual because we could well
> have supporters who are staff AND dev, but we'd only need to check
> their supporter credietnails (coc compliance etc) once.
>
>

AND, the important bit, separates foundation membership from both
classes; right?