We may see questions from newcomers hitting this list shortly, as a team from Allegheny College (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments#Wild_West_.28design_team_tickets.29) is tackling this project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_team_ticket_tackling_tools I will be present in person this week to buffer, and will also be handling as many of their questions on IRC as possible - but part of that will be guiding students towards asking good questions in the channel and on the list, and learning how to come up with their own answers - with thinking-out-loud "how we came to this conclusion" rationale clearly stated, as befits the open source way of doing things. ;) Just a heads-up - this is a good excuse to (1) flag easy/urgent tickets for them to start with and (2) for us to learn what the Design Team looks like to new contributors who are trying to figure out how to get started. --Mel --- excerpt below --- So here's the problem: The Design team has a bunch of tickets. They need to be done. They also need to be made more possible to work through - right now the pile is large and daunting, assumes a lot of background knowledge, uses acronyms, may not have a clear workflow... and so forth. Can you, as a newcomer, figure out what the Design Team does and how to help it? If not, this is a bug - and it's a bug that is our fault, and you will be helping us by pointing out how we can fix it. What resources do we need to provide to new Design contributors in order to smoothly get them started? Your mission: close tickets. (Contact Mel Chua if you're not exactly sure what that means.) Remember, the goal is to be "productively lost" - this is all the information we have right now, and you will probably have questions right away - we don't know what questions you need answers to, though, so once you find them we'll be pulling up (or making up!) the information for those answers. You should feel free to make up answers, too. _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
