Group application standardization

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > One thing I've proposed for our summer coding session is a welcome wizard
> > > to help new users through actually joining us.  One problem I've run into
> > > is how to deal with group application.  Every group is different and it is
> > > very non obvious what needs to be done to join a group.
> > >
> > > I suspect many new users show up and are very discouraged.  I'd like to
> > > come up with a single way to join all groups but:
> > >
> > > A) I don't know what some groups currently do.
> > >
> > > B) I don't know if that will even be possible.
> > >
> > > WRT B, joining the infrastructure group is completely different from
> > > joining the packagers group.  Can this be remedied or will we have to come
> > > up with some other workflow?  The main problem I'm trying to solve here is
> > > people coming, applying for a group, and then never hearing from them
> > > again.  Having groups follow up with users _won't_ work.  So it's possible
> > > we may want to get rid of the application button altogether?  I'm mostly
> > > just talking out loud here, please dump your brains if you have other
> > > ideas because I've been thinking about it for a while and don't see an
> > > easy answer :-/
> >
> > So are the groups you're referring to the ones representing our main
> > project teams?
> >
>
> Anything in FAS that allows you to do something with the group that you
> can't do without the group (which defines every single group)
>
> > Or are you trying to solve this problem for all groups including some
> > or all code/content repository groups?
> >
>
> All groups, all code and content groups are groups.  When a user shows up
> to contribute, how do we get them from wanting to contribute to actually
> contributing.
>

One additional thing on this.  Lots, and I mean _lots_ of people apply for
groups and have no idea why or at least don't even know what the group is
for.

We've got a group called "disabled_torrent" the rules for application are
"Do NOT apply for this group.  It is a disabled group.  Why would you
apply for this group?"...  People have applied for this group.

	-Mike