[Ambassadors] [FAmSCo] Make Mentors Sponsors?

[Truong Anh. Tuan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Wickert" <christoph.wickert at gmail.com>
> To: "Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee" <famsco at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: ambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 5:49:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [FAmSCo] Make Mentors Sponsors?
> 
> > We shaped the current process in the past to remove the workload from a
> > FAmA represented by a single person and to separate the
> > "quality"-evaluation from the administrational/initial barriers and
> > formalism. I think this is perfect in place now.
> > 
> > With the current process the *last step* of a mentor is, that he gives
> > his *thumbs up in the tickets system* . After that, the FAmA sponsors
> > the candidate in FAS and closes the ticket. I think we should give the
> > Mentors who are doing the hard mentoring work, the recognition to
> > sponsor their own candidates.
> 
> I totally agree, there are a lot of good reasons. Let me summarize and
> add a few new ones:
>       * We should share the workload.
>       * We should not have a single point of failure.
>       * The mentors do all the work of the sponsoring process, in return
>         they should be rewarded with more recognition and
>         responsibility.
>       * Sponsoring somebody and closing his ticket is just a few clicks.
>         No big deal for a mentor, but it can become a lot of work for a
>         single person.
>       * As the mentors are filing the tickets, they should also close
>         them.
>       * The process would be consistent with all the other groups where
>         sponsors == mentors.

I see a lot of reasons to change/improve the current process this way.
Although I am not so familiar as both of you on this process, I see these
reasons are more than enough to make the change.

I have no ideas at this moment but there may someone against these point,
and it would be nice to see his/her points.

Despite of this, as a new appointed FAmA administrator, I see that position
is still necessary in the whole process (lets discuss that in another topic)
so I would be happy to continue my job.

Kind regards,
Tuan