1:25 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 14:16 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)gnu.org> skribis:
Communication on the mailing list, wiki, and other tools hosted here are
subject to the code of conduct. Anyone who subscribes to this mailing
list agrees to follow the code of conduct.
OK.
I think any GNU contributor can subscribe to the mailing list. I
would exclude people who are not GNU contributors to ensure the list
remains focused.
Note that we haven't really defined who is a "GNU contributor", so
there is still some ambiguity that the list admins need to resolve when
they don't know the person. But for now I added Siddhesh Poyarekar, who
is one of the release/uploaders of glibc. And who really should update
his wikipage https://www.sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SiddheshPoyarekar
In my view, being an Assembly member gives the additional possibility
of
participating in decision making. That would mean having a voice in the
(presumably rare) case where consensus cannot be found and we need to
vote, and having an opinion “that counts” in other cases.
IMO Assembly members must sign the Social Contract: it’s the way we
collectively agree to basic requirements and goals.
I don't like the word "sign", but yes, I agree that being a GNU
contributor (however we define that term) and endorsing the GNU Social
Contract would make you an GNU Assembly member.
But again, we might have some trouble defining GNU contributor. For
example if you look at the maintainer file on fencepost you will now
see that it lists GNU Radio as unmaintained and various
packages/maintainers are now marked as "renegade", like most GNOME
related packages. I assume we still count them as GNU contributors. On
the other hand the maintainer file on fencepost lists some maintainers
who haven't actually contributed much besides an empty package (but
maybe they contributed to others?).
Finally, we should think about what happens over time. Should we have a
yearly checking for example where people can simply recertify
themselves or should we have some minimum activity requirement?
Cheers,
Mark