On 7/21/19 1:46 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
Hello,
We've written a proposal here[1] to move to a more people-centric workflow for newcomers. The idea is that instead of asking newcomers to dive in to tasks as we do now, we'll make them get to know the people in the community first. You can read more on the ticket.
As part of this, we were hoping to set up an FAS group for newbies, and let the Join SIG add newcomers to it while they find their teams and tasks of interest in the community.
In this workflow, infra would no longer have to maintain the wikiedit group as they do so now. It really shouldn't be infra's job in the first place :)
Well, the wikiedit group was meant to be a 'catch all' for people who don't want to contribute to any specific group, but wanted to help edit things on the wiki in some area. It was always intended that new onboarding remove any requirement to edit the wiki before people were members of the group.
The entire thing there is anoying... pesky spammers. :)
What do we think? Please leave your comments on the ticket. The plan is only a proposal and will change as we get more feedback from the community.
I think it's worth a try... I'm not sure how effective it will be, but we should definitely try things and see if we can do better than we are now. :)
How can we measure if it's a success or not?
kevin