[fab] Succession Planning

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:30 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 July 2006 09:11, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >>>> 4) CLA completion and being part of atleast one specific Fedora group
> >>>> like say Fedora Extras must be a requirement. Not everybody who has
> >>>> signed the CLA has provided any meaningful contributions and thus are
> >>>> not in the group of actual Fedora contributors. Having merely the CLA as
> >>>> a requirement might be abused.
> >>> How do we define being "part of" a group?  Number of CVS commits?
> >>> Number of emails posted to a list?  Time on IRC?  If you can provide an
> >>> objective standard for this criterion, let's discuss it.
> >> Part of any Fedora group in the accounts system.
> >>
> > 
> > There is no reliable way to say who is active and who is not.  It is trivial 
> > to gain membership in most of the groups in the Account System.  Unless 
> > someone can think of a superior way to measure active contributors, I think 
> > the CLA requirement is the best we can do.
> 
> I do continue to think we can do better. Here is a possible criteria 
> set. We might have to fine tune it better.
> 
> * Signed the CLA
> * CVS commits to any of the Fedora Projects
> * Triaged or reported X number of bugs in Fedora.
> * Participated or organized atleast one event or contributed to 
> Free/Sponsored media as a Fedora Ambassador
> * Member of any of the governing bodies such as committees and board
> * Produced any Fedora specific content that is included in the 
> distribution - Documentation, Artwork etc.
> * People who contribute to infrastructure and other management tasks.
> 
> Anything that I have missed?

CLA'ers that participate in ways we can't capture:  IRC, FedoraForum,
real-life boosterism...  Also Wiki wasn't on this list.  I assume people
working on i18n.r.c were captured in your item #6.  You can see how this
makes it more difficult to draw a line.  See my other comment in a
related election thread this morning; our voting rights barrier should
be as low as possible, else it sends a signal we have very little faith
in the majority of our community.  

I trust people to do what's best for the project in the long run, since
the community and the project are pretty much synonymous.  It seems
highly unlikely that there will be a coordinated mass insurrection by
non-active people who've done a CLA. ;-)

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