<div dir="ltr">thanks for all of the effort, great work<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-08 13:30 GMT+08:00 Swapnil Kulkarni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coolsvap@gmail.com" target="_blank">coolsvap@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley <<a href="mailto:fungi@yuggoth.org">fungi@yuggoth.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Due to improvements in the OpenStack Foundation member directory and<br>
> our technical election tooling, it is no longer necessary to join<br>
> the foundation as an individual member just to be able to submit<br>
> changes through Gerrit for official repositories. You do, however,<br>
> still eventually need to join if you want to be able to participate<br>
> in technical elections (as a candidate or a voter).<br>
><br>
> The Account Setup section[1] of the Developer's Guide has been<br>
> updated to reflect the new simpler process, and a separate<br>
> (optional) Eligibility to Vote in Elections section[2] has been<br>
> added. This process change significantly simplifies the onboarding<br>
> process for new code contributors by removing a very error-prone<br>
> and, for many, eyebrow-raising hurdle.<br>
><br>
> A little background: the Bylaws of the OpenStack Foundation Appendix<br>
> 4 Technical Committee Member Policy[3] (section 3b) limits voter<br>
> rolls for technical elections to Foundation Individual Members. It<br>
> was never strictly required by policy to join the foundation if you<br>
> only wanted to contribute code and had no interest in voting, which<br>
> is not an entirely uncommon case for new contributors. Due to<br>
> previous technical limitations in our systems we still forced new<br>
> contributors to join, because that was the easiest way at the time<br>
> to be relatively certain who was qualified to participate in<br>
> technical elections. Now that we have a mechanism for verifying<br>
> membership on demand when validating nominations and generating<br>
> voter rolls, we have made the step of joining the foundation<br>
> optional (though still very much recommended once you reach the<br>
> point as a contributor where you want to participate in community<br>
> governance processes).<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#account-setup" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.org/<wbr>infra/manual/developers.html#<wbr>account-setup</a><br>
> [2] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#eligibility-to-vote-in-elections" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.org/<wbr>infra/manual/developers.html#<wbr>eligibility-to-vote-in-<wbr>elections</a><br>
> [3] <a href="https://www.openstack.org/legal/technical-committee-member-policy/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/<wbr>legal/technical-committee-<wbr>member-policy/</a><br>
> --<br>
> Jeremy Stanley<br>
><br>
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</span>Great, excellent step to reduce barrier to entry. Kudos!<br>
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