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All: My only comment is that it seems that #2 would certainly lengthen meeting times. I myself don't object to this as I do not currently have a job, but one of these days that may impede my ability to make said meetings. > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:47:21 -0500 > Subject: ProvenTesters Sponsorship > From: maxamillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hello testers! > > I wanted to open a conversation on the list about how we want to as a > group handle sponsorship. I wanted to propose two ideas I had and > leave the floor open for other suggestions. > > 1) Allow the sponsors/mentors to individually decide upon new > proventesters FAS group menbers when they feel the person they are > mentoring is "ready" > 2) Have a vote process such that when a proventester-to-be (i.e.- > currently being mentored) is considered familiar enough with the > processes by their mentor and has shown a track record of good testing > practices that they are to present their formal request to the current > proventesters at a QA meeting and then a vote is given? > > The way it is currently outlined in the wiki[0] leans more the > direction of option 2 but I wanted to bring it up as I think each > option has some benefits. I like option 1 because the mentor is going > to be the one who ultimately has (or should have) the closest working > relationship with the person they are mentoring and therefore would be > the best judge upon when they are "ready." I however also like option > 2 because it feels like a more formal process and allows for some more > uniformity on how decisions are made, allows for the group as a > community to constructively critique their peers as well as offers a > little more oversight in the process. > > I also wanted to point out concerns I have with each. Option 1 I feel > could spawn some feeling of chaos where people are getting added > "willy nilly" (cheesy saying, I know ... ) and I worry that Option 2 > could run us into the situation where we could be preventing testers > from joining in with their critpath contributions (example: request > comes in on a Tuesday, we have to cancel the meeting the following > Monday for some reason .... 2 weeks go by for sponsorship in FAS). > > Just my thoughts, please reply with questions, comments, and if need > be ... snide remarks ;) > > -AdamM > > [0] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters > > -- > http://maxamillion.googlepages.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. See how. |
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