Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:35:40PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> This just doesn't seem to be the onerous task that several have made it
> out to be. It's just another requirement for becoming a member. Why not
> just obliterate all the requirements, and make signing up sufficient to
> membership? We did that at one time, why not now?
> We wish to restrict membership to those people who are open and capable of
> cooperating in a joint project like Debian. Try looking at this from
> Debian's point of view instead of the poor abused applicant.
Looking at it from Debian's point of view I don't really see what it
achieves. Seeing someone's face just doesn't seem at all important,
particularly since most of Debian isn't going to see this picture. I
understand where your club analogy comes from, but this part of it just
doesn't seem to win us anything. One of the things with working on
Linux and free software is that you're constantly dealing with people
who's faces you've never seen, and I think people can handle it.
It's not that it's impossible to get photos, but it could be a lot more
hassle for some people than you seem to realise (perhaps this is a USA
thing?) and doesn't do anything useful. The applicant has already
physically met another developer, which is far more like the sort of
contact you're trying to reproduce than having a couple of developers
look at a photo and drop it in a file somewhere.
--
Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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