Summary of the discussion about Marco Rodrigues

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

I've took the time to go through all relevant discussions on the
motu-council list and aggregated all items that classify as proposals
how to further deal with the matter.

1)  Scott Kitterman asks the members of the MOTU Council to share their
idea about the fitness of Marco Rodrigues for becoming a MOTU.


2a)  Scott Kitterman proposes that the MOTU Council asks for all of
his Ubuntu-related Launchpad privileges on Launchpad to be revoked. This
includes a provision for reconsideration at a later date so that this is
not a permanent decision (two MC members vouch for Marco so he'll get
another chance, they bring it to the community and it can be decided
on).

2b)  Daniel Holbach proposes that Marco will be asked to agree to run
all of his work by volunteers. (Daniel Holbach and Cesare Tirabassi
agreed to work with him.) The volunteers will report every two weeks
about what's going on.

Jordan Mantha adds that Marco will be given a (last) chance to
officially redeem himself by giving him a probationary period where he
is under MOTU scrutiny. Marco commits to not mass filing bug reports.
This should involve tracking also his bug comments, IRC behaviour, etc.
If anybody notices something inappropriate (not asking for perfection,
but looking out for disruptive behaviour) a MC member should be notified
right away. This includes re-evaluation, taking sponsors feedback into
account. Any problem brought up to the MC during the probationary
period. If the evaluation is positive then we should officially
reinstate him as a regular contributor. If the evaluation doesn't go
well, we must ask him to no longer work on Ubuntu.


3)  Scott Kitterman proposes that the MOTU Council tells Marco, that he
is invited to read the MOTU mailing list and the IRC channel so that he
can continue to attempt to learn, but that he is not to give
advice/answers or disrupt the activities of developers (asking the
channel generically for an answer wouldn't count, but bothering specific
developers would). Also that the MC authorise IRC operators and mailing
list admins to enforce this if he does not restrain himself.


Please let me know if any idea or proposal from the discussion is
missing on this list. If not, the MC should have voted on the proposal
by Thursday, Fri 21st 12:00 UTC.


I want to mention the calm and reasonable discussion and the way how a
lot of people shared their ideas and advice particularly. This is what
we need much more and much earlier for similar matters in the future.


Have a nice day,
 Daniel