Hello Reps Council 2015 candidates,
I have a good opportunity to share with you to restore the trust between the Reps council and the Reps in general. Of course I believe your answers here and the efforts that you are going to take based on that will improve the Reps program.
It’s all started after a mozillian called Watson Vinro (I believe this name is not the real one just like you all believe) sent an email questioning the Reps application of @gautha91. Most probably the sender was a Rep. I agree we need to respect the privacy and stands with our fellow mozillians.
To protect the privacy of the rep applications, just after the incident @r_oVhPfcJCUUC5wbm6i4_C2Q updated the access level of reps application forms from open to all Reps to open to only Reps admins. I seriously thought it would be a temporary action, I never thought it would last this much longer.
As a use case, imagine there is a Mozillian who applied for joining the program, but unfortunately he may not eligible to become a Rep. How a local Rep whom residing near to the applicant’s location can flag the application? What if a Reps Mentor wants to verify the application by seeking opinion from any Rep whom might know the person.
Well, by the way I don’t feel here we do have a need for justification. We all are contributing here based on a trust. The trust that we built so far. Just because of a negative question, how we can put our trust at risk? What if a normal Rep asks, in what basis the program drivers keeping trust over the members of the Reps admin group only? Not just Mentors or Council members, normal Reps are also handling sensitive information.
Will revoking the access level entirely based on an anonymous mozillian helps to keep our Reps program more secure? Instead of discussing about the real issues, we just pointed our doubts on to every Reps.
We are a community, negative sentiments may rise over the time, but instead of identifying and cleaning the cause, we are just working with a temporary solution.
Now my question is how we can restore the trust within and beyond the Reps program to help overall Mozilla contributors?
This question is not to the Council candidates only, indeed. Lets all can discuss about this.