On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:53 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I don't really see any reason why *everyone* who's a
packager shouldn't
> also have signed up to be a proven tester by now. I'd like to ask if
> anyone has a perception that it's a hard process to get involved in, or
> if they got the impression that they *shouldn't* get engaged in it, or
> something like that. Maybe we can improve the presentation to make it
> clear that this really ought to be a very wide-based process.
>
With that in mind, perhaps we should have being added to the packager group
automatically put you in the proventester group. If you turn out to be
a problem we can then remove you from the proventester group until you've
learned how you should be testing. (On the implementation side, we should
have this ability in fas since we do something similar to put people who
sign the cla into the cla_done group automatically).
I'm not sure I'd want to go quite that far unless the sign-up process
can wave the proven testers instructions in your face quite prominently.
They're short and easy to read and understand, but you can't infer them
from first principles: we do want to have people read the proven tester
instructions before becoming proven testers. That's actually the *only*
requirement to become a proven tester. :)
And in answer to your question -- my perception is that it's a
separate
thing that I could join just as I've joined infrastructure as well as
packaging. So in the sense that it's not something that's automatically
there for me to do by virtue of being in packager, it is hard to get
involved in.
Thanks.
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