old_testing_critpath notifications

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 09:41 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:48:13 -0800,
>   Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think it'd probably fit better in the preamble before step 1. Perhaps
> > after the paragraph 'As a Contributor, you should...' we add a paragraph
> > explaining that as a packager you will automatically be given
> > proventester privileges, a short explanation of the proventester
> > concept, and a link out to the proventester page requesting that you
> > read those instructions.
> 
> If we go down this route I'd rather see packagers have a way they can
> get proven tester status without needing mentor approval, but not just get
> it. I'd rather have a place where you read up on the expectations for
> proven testers and then click a button that says I'll do that.

practically speaking that would change very little, because we're not
blocked on getting moderator approval at present. Thankfully a lot of
people are taking up the moderator duties, so anyone who actually
applies to be a proventester usually gets a reply from a moderator
almost immediately. The idea is to remove the active 'apply for the
status' step from developers.
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Adam Williamson
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