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[Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:53:08AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
...
> >   - Was this decision wrong or not?
> >   - If it was wrong, should we approve all people who wants to be a
> >     member of the admin or developer team?
> >   - If you consider rejection of some persons to be wrong, let's discuss
> >     that/them.
> 
> At least one of the people directly involved said he agreed with the
> rejection.  Unless one of the rejected people has a specific complaint
> and can show that he's been doing admin tasks all along, I don't see
> any real problems.
> 
> So if someone who's not active on the lists and hasn't shown any
> project leadership asks for admin, IMHO it's right to say "no".  That
> doesn't mean "stop trying", it might just mean "not yet".  Remember,
> the admin list is a list of people who *own* the project on LP.
> 
> If someone had been coordinating releases, helping developers, and
> overall doing the job of an admin, and was highly active, and asked
> for admin and was rejected . . . then we'd have a problem.
> 
> But at the moment my top priority is to grow the developers group, not
> the admins group.  Once we have enough developers that we need a
> formal "steering committee" type of admin group, I'll worry about that
> then.
> 
> Meanwhile, my policy for the developers list is simple - if you have
> git commit privs anywhere on gedaproject.org, you should be on the
> developers list.  With Markus's new "junior developer" feature we
> should be able to be more lenient with adding developers.

OK, I'm fully agreed.

Thanks,
  Vladimir