On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Anything in FAS that allows you to do something with the group that you > can't do without the group (which defines every single group) > > > Or are you trying to solve this problem for all groups including some > > or all code/content repository groups? > > > > All groups, all code and content groups are groups. When a user shows up > to contribute, how do we get them from wanting to contribute to actually > contributing. > One additional thing on this. Lots, and I mean _lots_ of people apply for groups and have no idea why or at least don't even know what the group is for. We've got a group called "disabled_torrent" the rules for application are "Do NOT apply for this group. It is a disabled group. Why would you apply for this group?"... People have applied for this group. -Mike _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
