[Mageia-sysadm] new group created in ldap

[Michael Scherer]

Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 09:33 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le vendredi 11 février 2011 00:32:55, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 23:26 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > > Le jeudi 10 février 2011 21:56:32, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > > > Hi, I have created the group mga-founders to hold the uid of founders.
> > > > Just FYI.
> > > >
> > > > Since we start to have lots of group, I suggest that we start using the
> > > > description attribute, to store information about the goal of each
> > > > group ( just checked the rfc, after thomas suggested ).
> > > >
> > > > Or should we also track this on the wiki ?
> > >
> > > Has the concept of "founders" still a meaning now that we have a board
> > > and team council representatives ? I thought the "founders" were only a
> > > temporary group meant to let place to the council and the board.
> > 
> > According to statutes, yes :
> > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_org_statutes
> > See article 6.
> > 
> > And according to Article 12, the founders are part of the assembly, no
> > matter their statutes ( from my understanding ). This is not clear if a
> > founder moved to the status of honor member ( article 6, again ) must be
> > present to the assembly or not.
> > 
> 
> Except if there is a legal reason for that, I don' understand why there's such 
> a distinction between founder members and active members. To me, this is 
> exactly the same thing, the founders being just the first active members.
>
> Now that I read the statuses, I see that in pratice, founders have no different 
> practical role than active members. Then I still maintain I don't see what the 
> distinction between founders and active members is for.

The statuts are not the only thing governing ldap. For example : 
http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meeting/2011/mageia-meeting.2011-01-17-19.36.log.html#l-52

The meeting said "founders", not "board", nor "active member". So I need
this.

-- 
Michael Scherer