RE: ProvenTesters Sponsorship

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:47:21 -0500 Subject: ProvenTesters Sponsorship From: maxamillion(a)fedoraproject.org To: test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org 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(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test