Hi Majken, On 05/01/16 21:39, Majken Connor wrote: > I'm not so sure. This is really a question of what's the purpose of this > module, and of the module system at all!
The purpose of the module system is to be the core of the governance of the Mozilla project. (Whether it adequately fulfils that purpose and how we fix it is out of scope for today :-) The purpose of this proposal (I think that, even though Mitchell started by calling it a 'module', it's now no longer a module in itself and it's confusing to call it one) is to provide longer-term area-specific recognition for people who have had leadership positions. > My first question would be why use this as a mode of recognition for people > who weren't in modules? Do other recognition tools not exist? Are they > lacking? Which method should be improved to cover this use case? The current major project-wide recognition tool is about:credits but (by design) it's just a list of names. This new form of recognition shows that people had authority within the project, and connects that to the area concerned. > I don't imagine it's always been policy that anyone who contributed good > code became a peer or owner of a module. Indeed not; I'd say that's specifically not a goal of the module system. Being an owner certainly is (and being a peer to a lesser extent is) a different set of skills to the skill of being able to contribute good code. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
