14 Sep 2010 10:53
GR: welcome non-packaging contributors as Debian project members
Stefano Zacchiroli <leader <at> debian.org>
2010-09-14 08:53:46 GMT
2010-09-14 08:53:46 GMT
[ Draft GR text below, look for "-----". M-F-T set to -vote. ] Dear Debian project, in recent events I've attended as DPL, the topic of welcoming non-packaging contributors as project members has been a recurring one. Since it was also part of my platform and since DPL terms don't last forever, I feel it's time to have a project-wide decision on the topic. There are various intertwined topics here: from which levels of project membership we want, to the evergreen topic of NM reform. They are all valuable and important, but what I'm trying to do here is to be modular. Take one decision at a time, instead of trying to fix all at once (as we risk to never converge on that), and without posing artificial barriers to subsequent, hopefully orthogonal, changes. Of all those topics, one topic *might* have consensus already: accepting as DDs contributors which have contributed a lot to Debian doing non-packaging work, which intend to continue doing so, and which are ready to uphold our Foundation Documents. My feeling of consensus on that builds upon: in person feedback, private mails, and a growing number of requests on that direction hitting Front Desk (which FD has kindly shared with me). I do have an impression of consensus, but I don't have any "quantitative" evidence. As a discussion alone cannot fix that, here is the draft GR I'm hereby introducing: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. To that end the project benefits from various types of contributions, including but not limited to: package maintenance, translations, infrastructure and website maintenance, porting, bug triaging and(Continue reading)
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