To be totally honest it seems disappointing that were still blocked on this. One issue I do see is we haven't defined a Mozillian well and new hires are vouched as Mozillians instantly and new volunteers can be vouched easily.
Vouched Mozillians status has kind of been watered down if you compare it to other open source projects membership or vouching models. See Ubuntu Membership, Debian Developer, Gnome Membership, LibreOffice Membership. Across the open source ecosystem you have to have sustained contributions for months generally or years to earn a status. In Mozilla its handed out nearly instantly and this is not good for a number of reasons. We need leadership support here though we need Mitchell, Chris, Mark and IT Leadership to support this. This is the biggest blocker and if we can get their support I'm sure Participation Team, WPR and IT can figure out a policy and process. On Sep 28, 2015 8:55 AM, "Gareth Aye" <gareth....@gmail.com> wrote: > > We talked about this for over a year and there were clearly a lot of good reasons to help people who have been active contributors but aren't (or are no longer) employed by Mozilla identify with the project. I won't always be employed by Mozilla, but it would be meaningful to me to have a long-term Mozilla "identity" when I move on professionally. The issues related to cost and authenticity seem surmountable. Can we really not find a way to work this out? _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
