On 17:53 Tue 14 Sep , Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. > To that end the project benefits from various types of contributions, > including but not limited to: package maintenance, translations, > infrastructure and website maintenance, porting, bug triaging and > fixing, management activities, communication, testing, legal advice, > quality assurance, etc. > > The Debian project acknowledges that: > > * To pursue Debian goals, package maintenance as well as a wide range of > other technical and non-technical contributions are all valuable. > > * Active contributors of non-packaging work, which share Debian values > and are ready to uphold Debian Foundation Documents, deserve the > opportunity for becoming Debian project members. > > The Debian project therefore invites the Debian Account Managers to: > > * Endorse the idea that contributors of non-packaging work might become > Debian Developers without upload rights to the Debian archive. These > new developers shall be recognized as Debian Contributors (DC). > > * Establish procedures to evaluate and accept Debian Contributors. > > * Initiate the appropriate technical measures to enable Debian > Contributors to participate in Debian decision making and to access > Debian infrastructure. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Some few more comments are in order: > > - Constitution §4.2.1 does not require seconds in this case, but I would > appreciate them nonetheless. > > - Related past history is <http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_002>. > This GR is narrower in scope and aims at verifying project consensus > before proceeding to implementation. > > - At the same time, the text does not mandate a specific implementation. > This is on purpose since: > > - Leaving out implementation details, it will be easier to change > project membership procedures later on. > > - DAM is authoritative on membership procedures and should be trusted > on these matters. I do have an idea of how the process will look > like (i.e. "like NM, but swifter, without the packaging part") and > I'm sure DAM will be happy to comment on that. > > - I've done some background study before posting this. In particular > I've shared the text with FD and DAM, as the GR outcome will directly > impact their work. They have raised no specific objection to any > possible outcome of the GR in its present form. I've also shared the > text with the secretary. While formal ruling can be done only on an > actual ballot, he doesn't consider the above text to be in need of 3:1 > majority. Seconded. -- Xavier Oswald <xoswald@debian.org> GNU/Linux Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org/ GPG key ID: 0x464B8DE3
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