3:39 p.m.
On 4/17/21 10:03 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
We could, for example, put membership requests by non-maintainers on
hold until we’ve set this up. It would be a bummer, because we want
equal participation of all contributors, but that’s a simple way to
prevent the obvious infiltration scenario discussed above.
Another way would be to require applicants to have at least (say) two
years of experience contributing to GNU in a visible way.
Lots of questions. :-)
Ludo’.
I am a sort of marginal case as a GNU contributor, and perhaps it might
be helpful to consider my own case as a concrete example.
I have a bunch of experience contributing -- as a writer, manager,
teacher, fundraiser, tester, programmer, etc. -- to free software
projects, but very little in GNU projects. I put some months into GNU
Mailman in early 2015, and you can find my name in commit logs, mailing
list posts, and bug reports from back then. Then I worked on GNU
Autoconf last year, contributing fundraising and project management, but
did not post to Savannah or mailing lists. It's possible to see evidence
of those contributions by looking at blog posts, news articles, and
conference talks, but putting together that portfolio would certainly
take a bit more work than just running "git log" or similar.
I care about the future of software freedom, and the existence and
momentum of GNU Assembly makes me more interested in contributing more
to GNU projects in the future. It might be that I'm not well placed to
be a *member* of the Assembly -- if that's the case, I still want to
keep up with what you are doing, and I'll just keep up via the blog's
syndication feed.
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