Trust seed

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/10/2012 09:00 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 07/10/2012 12:35 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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>> 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.
>

+1 to both