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thanks for all of the effort, great work

2017-08-08 13:30 GMT+08:00 Swapnil Kulkarni <coolsvap at gmail.com>:

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