On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:27:04PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:16:18PM +0000, Martin Meredith wrote: > > Sponsors etc I mean people who make a significant contribution to the project > > via sponsorship. Say for example, someone who donates a machine, bandwidth etc. Not > > someone who dumps a couple of $ across via paypal now and then. > > And they can *apply* to become a member and don't become one > automatically, right? Yep, noone should become a member automatically unless they apply (except for the case of applying for DD or Debian Maintainer, which should imply Membership) > > Again, with someone who is a Debian Maintainer, I'd assume their Membership to > > be implied from this. If you got accepted as a Maintainer/Developer, then you'd > > have membership to the project. > > Ah, okay, thanks for clarification. > > > I'm basically suggesting that, along with the current process(es) we also have a > > process where someone can become a member without any upload rights. I'm also > > suggesting that current Maintainers/DDs should have this membership implied from > > the DM/DD status (which DDs already do) > > That would probably lead to a lot more members and it seems to be a fair > idea. I still don't know if fully agree with the consequences in mind > but then I don't have voting rights now, so it's up to you. :) We may get a lot of new members, but those members would have had to have made a sustained contribution to Debian to be accepted as a member. Which in that case, I think that it's only fair that they have voting rights. Just to clarify, these are my personal opinions, not those of the Debian Project as a whole. While I'd like to see something similar to what I've suggested actually happen, that would be up to a vote of the current Project Members > Thanks for making it more clear!
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