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
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
Hey Benjamin,
I was pretty active in this discussion LAST YEAR and I pretty much gave up
in championing the mozilla.org email address on the understanding that it's
recognition Mozilla is not willing to give any time soon.
Here's what I wrote almost one year ago:
"I'm also getting the impression
Mozilla decided to move to gApps for their mail after we had this
discussion. That should remove some blockers on the technical side. Also
there is a new participation team that is doing more work on defining and
recognizing contributors, which was a blocker on the process side. It seems
like we're
Very good point about the technical barriers.
But what about the non-technical ones, which was the really holding it up?
What has changed on our side (the community) to merit the reversal of
Mozilla's stance?
I don't want to sound defeatist, but I didn't think there was any change in
recent talk
