Re: [Design-team] Possibility of Changing groups on join-fedora

[Elad]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Elad  wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Tim Flink  wrote:
> > 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].
> >
> > 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.
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > websites mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
>
> --
> -Elad Alfassa.

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.