On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 14:39:54 -0400, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Earlier I remember Mike McGrath had talked about some of the issues we > had in "growth without scaling" as it pertained to FAS groups. > Because we have a very self-service group joining system, we have lots > of new FAS account holders joining groups with no context around them, > or any idea what they mean, or whether they even need to be in them. > As a result, there are "join queues" which have a very low signal to > noise ratio, and it's hard to figure out as a sponsor on which to take > action. We certainly want new contributors to be able to join (and be > approved for) groups easily, but the suggestion was made by someone > that invitation groups by default make more sense. I think that most group memberships should be by invitation. Whenever I request group membership or package co-maintainer status using the self service pages, I always send an email message to what I think the correct people or list is explaining my request. This gives them more context and I think makes it easier to explain why a request was denied in the cases where that is appropriate. I could just as easily send the email message asking for membership and not do the self service part. I'd just have to make sure to include my fas account name in the message. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
