On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > One thing I've proposed for our summer coding session is a welcome wizard > to help new users through actually joining us. One problem I've run into > is how to deal with group application. Every group is different and it is > very non obvious what needs to be done to join a group. > > I suspect many new users show up and are very discouraged. I'd like to > come up with a single way to join all groups but: > > A) I don't know what some groups currently do. > > B) I don't know if that will even be possible. > > WRT B, joining the infrastructure group is completely different from > joining the packagers group. Can this be remedied or will we have to come > up with some other workflow? The main problem I'm trying to solve here is > people coming, applying for a group, and then never hearing from them > again. Having groups follow up with users _won't_ work. So it's possible > we may want to get rid of the application button altogether? I'm mostly > just talking out loud here, please dump your brains if you have other > ideas because I've been thinking about it for a while and don't see an > easy answer :-/ So are the groups you're referring to the ones representing our main project teams? Or are you trying to solve this problem for all groups including some or all code/content repository groups? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
