On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Sarup Banskota <sbanskota08(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:30:43PM +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > I stole the last few steps from the infra team. I think they have the
> > best and easiest join process. They create a fi-apperentice group and
>
> They have a great process, but it also requires someone dedicated to
> helping
> mentor the apprentices and do the status report queries. That is
> definitely
> awesome and I'd like to see more of it across Fedora, but I don't know how
> we can demand it of every sub-team.
>
I'm not really sure how it currently works on other teams, but maybe we
should have an ambassador assigned to every team? Maybe multiple
ambassadors to accommodate several timezones per sub-team? Am I wrong in
thinking that ambassadors should take up responsibility of a particular
team for fixed days in a given timezone if they're going to become
ambassadors? I understand people are only volunteers, but I feel not being
guided by a human when starting out really puts off newcomers. It would be
nice to have rosters of ambassadors/contributors mentoring newcomers at
specific periods of time.
Sorry for the repeated reply, I just had a chat with Pete on irc and it
seems like I may have not explained my intent properly. What I really mean
to say is that there should be someone on every team to help out newcomers,
show them specifically how they can help with a project based on their
skills, and then be with them until they first set it up on their local (or
come up with a logo for eg). Now this person may or may not be an
ambassador, but it's useful if all ambassadors know such people so they
know who to point people to when they're directing people to a team.
Thanks!