On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:44:03AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: [snip] > Proposal > -------- > > * People should be allowed to join Debian when there is reasonably > wide-spread consensus that they agree with the project's goals, are > committed to working on those goals, and are trustworthy. The best way > to determine this is to have some number of people endorse a candidate. > However, there should not be too much opposition to a candidate, either. > > Concrete proposal: max(Q, 20) endorsements, two existing members > together can veto. The veto can be done anonymously via the Debian > Account Manager to avoid peer pressure to not veto. The DAM only > counts the endorsements and vetos, and does not make judgement calls. > All endorsements and vetos must happen within 30 days. > > * Membership in the project gives both voting and upload rights. > > * Membership ends 24 months after they're given, or after the latest > participation in a vote arranged by the project's Secretary. Members > may retire themselves earlier, of course. > > * Members may be expelled via the normal General Resolution process, with > a simple majority. Ftpmasters may temporarily limit upload rights in an > emergency. > > * Membership is controlled via GnuPG keyrings, primarily maintained by the > Debian Account Manager. The keyrings shall be maintained in a way that > allows any member to change them, and that is fully transparent to the > members in general, and that further makes it easy to undo mistakes. > > * Upload sponsorships and the limited upload rights via the Debian > Maintainer status are unaffected by this proposal. > I really like your proposal, it is simple and at the same time it is able to solve lot of problems: NM, MIA, DAM SPOF... There is still some minor changes I would like to see (for example I really think that a new member should still agree with DMUP/SC/DFSG), but I consider it a really good basis to start a productive discussion. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
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