On 2013-05-14 07:58, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
As a final point, I disagree with cate's proposal to forbid people
requesting
travel sponsorship from joining the herb@ team: people asking for
sponsorship
_are_ a (significant) part of the Debian community and I think we
would loose
some precious diversity by taking them off them the team. Then, herb@
team
members requesting sponsorship must obviously stay off any decisions
related
to them.
The main reason to disallow people who ask for sponsorship from being
part of the team is to ensure the appearance of correctness/probity.
As has been pointed out, each year we have easily enough (sufficiently
knowledgeable) people who are not asking for travel sponsorship, so
there is no reason to make the process look murkier by including people
who ask for it on the team.
Hypothetically, asking for travel sponsorship yourself might influence
ratings of others in a much more complex way, not only change what
rating you would give to yourself (rating yourself was already
disallowed anyway), might influence your ratings in an unconscious way
rather than because you intend to play the system, and also might
influence what ratings other people on the team give you, in case you
look at their ratings/comments.
(Also, this point has been discussed since several years ago, it's not
just "cate's point" ;)
--
Moray
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