On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:07 -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2008-07-23 09:58:02 PM, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
I definitely agree with your point, however, that the most important thing is to get a new contributor interacting and working with the other members of the team they would like to be a part of. Signing up for an account with the CLA is so easy now though, why restrict the work they can do by pushing this to a later point in the process?
Don't forget that some FAS groups are attached to access to things. This definitely raises the barrier for entry, which is one reason that we suggest getting involved with the people (list, IRC, etc.) first.
The interface could probably make it a bit clearer that we don't expect a new account holder to go applying for a ton of groups before doing anything else. Maybe I should file that as an enhancement?