From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [216.168.135.169] (helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MEjeO-0003nr-PL for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:45:01 +0200 Received: (qmail 1248 invoked by uid 1003); 11 Jun 2009 12:35:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (philip@opensdr.com@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 2009 12:35:10 -0000 Message-ID: <4A30F9FD.7070505@balister.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:35:09 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1244715057.21585.87.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1244715057.21585.87.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> Subject: Re: progress on OE organization issues X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:45:01 -0000 X-Groupsio-MsgNum: 11223 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms000904020004050506070308" --------------ms000904020004050506070308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 archite= cture into >> the statues. If someone decided to use a more distributed approach (f= x. using >> pull-requests instead of commit access), these rules would not give th= em >> voting rights. Any reason to involve SCM architecture into the statue= s? >=20 > 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: >=20 > "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=E2=80=99s commitment over a longer period of time and the > contributions he/she made in order to fulfil the Association=E2=80=99s = aims". >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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=20 to people with an interest in the project. There are many ways to=20 express that interest besides commiting to the repository. 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