Re: Trust seed

On 07/10/2012 12:35 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As discussed in last week's meeting, I'm proposing myself as a trust > seed for this team. Here's what that means, why me, and what it does > for us. Full consensus requested, please: +1, +0, or -1 (latter with > reasoning included.) > > We need to make the leap with this project and begin trusting each > other enough to share root/sudo access on production servers[1]. By a > "trust seed" I mean, a person who all others involved trust in > deciding who else to trust. As a seed, it's a one time thing - once > created, the initial trust circle will decide for itself how to > perpetuate, i.e., how to add new people in to the trust circle. > > Regarding my qualifications for being trusted and extending trust, > some supporting points: > > * Some of you have met me in person, at the initial oVirt workshop and > other locations. > * Demonstrated involvement in oVirt (presuming my wiki and GPG > accounts are not compromised, I have commit and email history to show > involvement.) > * Trust in Red Hat can extend to me, based on my 10+ years employment, > etc. > * Presence and positions of trust in other open source projects, > namely the Fedora Project. > * Experience working in Fedora Infrastructure as part of a distance > team of people who have never all met in person. > * Handful of videos of me talking at conferences, identified by name, > and so forth. > > I can provide references for the above, if requested. +1 I personally believe the current team should be grandfathered in. I think moving forward is were we as a team need to be thinking about who gets added in.