Possibility of Changing groups on join-fedora

[Elad]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Elad <el.il at doom.co.il> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> We've been trying to brainstorm ideas on how to increase the number of
>> proventesters [1] and one idea was to separate out testing from OS
>> Development on the join-fedora page [2].
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>> Our rationale behind this is that a lot of the testing that needs to be
>> done doesn't really require the ability to code or a deep understanding
>> of Fedora.
>>
>> For example, a proventester should be installing (at least some)
>> packages from updates-testing and giving karma to those updates after
>> some use. Ideally, that person would file a new bug or add a report to
>> an existing bug for any issues encountered but a vast majority of the
>> updates don't have immediate issues.
>>
>> Our hope is that we might be able to attract more proventesters if it
>> was described as a little less technical than packaging or BugZapping.
>> By attracting more members, we would be able to have better coverage of
>> packages for Fedora releases and not end up with so many packages in
>> updates-testing for months before they can be pushed to stable.
>>
>> So, our questions are:
>>  - Would it be possible to change the groups on join-fedora?
>>
> Sure, it is possible.
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>>  - If so, is there a process for proposing the change?
>>
>> You first need to change it in the wiki page,
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join
> Then, you need to contact the design team to make an icon for the tester
> role. When you've done that, just reply to this email with the text you
> want to use as a role description. I'd suggest just saying "tester" and not
> proventester, because it's more clear.
> When all these steps are done, I'll be able to add it to the join-fedora
> page.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester
>> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
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> -Elad Alfassa.
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Any update on this? I really want to get it done before f16 GA.
CC'ing the design team as well, because we need an icon for this role.

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-Elad Alfassa.
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