Re: progress on OE organization issues

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:48 +0200, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>> According to the babelfish translation of the statues, only active
>> members are given votes.
>>
>> I believe it is worth noting that thit ties in the current SCM architecture into
>> the statues.  If someone decided to use a more distributed approach (fx. using
>> pull-requests instead of commit access), these rules would not give them
>> voting rights.  Any reason to involve SCM architecture into the statues?
> 
> There doesn't seem to be anything in the statutes which talks about
> commit access specifically.  According to the KDE translation of the
> statutes, an active membership:
> 
> "will be granted if suggested by a member and supported by two other
> active members, if the general meeting decides to grant it or if a
> simple majority of the active members is obtained by means of an
> internet vote. The main criterion for granting membership should be the
> candidate’s commitment over a longer period of time and the
> contributions he/she made in order to fulfil the Association’s aims".
> 
> and, allowing for the slightly garbled translation that you get out of
> babelfish, the version on the oe wiki seems to be saying basically the
> same thing.  So I don't think there is anything to prevent a
> non-committing supporter from becoming an active supporter and gaining
> voting rights, so long as they undertake to further the e.V.'s aims in
> some other way.
> 
> But, if the statutes really do talk about SCMs specifically in some
> clause that I've overlooked, then I agree this is probably a mistake.

I'm with Phil, my reading of the statutes says that membership is open 
to people with an interest in the project. There are many ways to 
express that interest besides commiting to the repository.

Philip


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