[FAmSCo] Make Mentors Sponsors?

[Christoph Wickert]

Hi Jörg,

thanks for bringing this up.

Let me give some background for those of you who did not attend the
FAmSCo meeting yesterday and didn't (yet) read the meeting log: Herlo
asked for somebody else take over his duties as the head of FAMA, the
Fedora Ambassadors membership Administration [1]. After a little
discussion, we appointed Tuanta.

Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2013, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Joerg Simon:
> crossposted also to the famsco list as a heads up
> 
> i want to put the current Ambassador mentoring and membership process up
> to dicussion - if i see the solid base of mentors we have today, we
> should consider to give the mentors sponsorship rights.

When we discussed this yesterday, I thought about this, but I did not
suggest it. FAMA is a well established process with a long history and I
did not want to make any changes without consulting you first. Glad to
see you feel the same.

> 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.

Kind regards,
Christoph

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fama/