Developer account application approval by Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

[Paul Brown]

On Monday, 16 August 2021 23:39:10 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dissabte, 14 d’agost de 2021, a les 12:48:55 (CEST), Paul Brown va 
escriure:
> > > Paul, any feedback on this?
> > 
> > Volunteers and paid employees are not the same thing. Joseph (like Aniqa,
> > Allyson, Adam and myself) has been vetted in the selection process we all
> > had to go through when applying for the job. Maybe you can consult with
> > the Board and see if Joseph's background checks out.
> 
> The board has no special control over who gets a committer account or not.

I said you can check with the Board Joseph's background. I said nothing about 
the Board having any control over who gets a committer account.

> > Plus, if we misbehave, we can be fired quickly and painlessly by the e.V.:
> > we are contractors, not staff, and are all literally always 10 days away
> > from being sacked without any kind of compensation, losing a substantial
> > chunk of our livelihood.
> 
> KDE committer accounts are not linked to people's particular employer or
> employment status.
> 
> In the event that any of KDE e.V. board contractors would not be contracted
> anymore they would obviously keep their KDE committer account.

If a person behaves badly, sysadmin can rescind their account. If a KDE e.V. 
employee gets fired, there may be reasons to do this.

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