Membership question

[Nils Lohner]

In message <20000823082738.O20681 at finlandia.infodrom.north.de>, Martin 
Schulze
writes:
>Ed Boraas wrote:
>>  One quick question, though: are Debian maintainers entitled to
>> SPI membership automatically (ie., ex oficio)? If not, is there any
>> membership procedure established thus far, or is that still being
>> determined?
>
>That was the plan back in the old days.  IIRC it was agreed that this
>can't be done legally, thus whoever wants to be a member needs to apply
>on his own, implicit membership is not provided.  (afair)
>
  The current plan is to test the membership system with all of the debian 
maintainers who are interested.  Automatic membership will not happen as 
some developers did not want this.  So: debianers can apply and will receive 
contributing memberships since they are evidently contributing to the 
community.  After they have been processed and the system is working nicely, 
we'll open it up to the general public.  IMO this is the best way to allow 
us a ramp-up period where we can improve the system before allowing everyone 
in.

Regards, Nils.