I know when I brought this up almost exactly a year ago*, people weren't
convinced. With the recent site re-org, and planned merge of Ask Fedora, I
I'm going to try again to convince you. :)
As I look back at the traffic here from the last year, 95% of it is
introductions. I think those could certainly be in
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/fun/8 instead — either as individual
posts in the #introductions tag, or added to the
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/introduce-yourself/1875/ mega-thread.
Or, we could start a new one _specifically_ for Fedora Join.
There are also several "what can I do"? posts. It _might_ be useful to have
a separate tag (or even Team Workflows category) for that... but as I
understand the workflow, that's really supposed to be supported by the
Pagure ticket process.
And then there's been just a few "here's an easy thing to get involved
in"
annoucement messages. Honestly, I think these mostly get drowned in the
noise of introductions. I like the idea of a "push" of these ideas to
potentially interested people, and theoretically that's where mailing lists
shine, but I think probably if people's traffic from the list is mostly
_other_ things, they're unlikely to find these.
I wonder if those announcements would be better served by a revamped
"Easyfix" process — there was some conversation about that here:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/lets-talk-about-easyfix/32759.
There is also the #join tag (
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/join),
which I intended to be for topics like this one, about the team and process
itself. Ideally, all the formal members of the SIG (the sponsors
https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/group/fedora-join/, right?) would set
that tag as "Watching" so they get notifications.
Personally, I think this will be a lot easier for onboarding new people.
*
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fedora-join@lists.fedorapro...
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader