Change with FAS sysadmin-* accounts

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Aug 30 20:34:32 UTC 2010


On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Matt Micene wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > [mailto:infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of
> > Mike McGrath
> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:34 AM
> > To: Fedora Infrastructure
> > Subject: RE: Change with FAS sysadmin-* accounts
> >
> > We link to the
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_be_a_successful_contributor
> > document
> > on the getting started page that mentions some techniques you can use.
> > I
> > still have a lot of people come in looking for "access to things"
> > instead
> > of work to do which is kind of backwards.  But the docs we have in
> > place
> > are relatively new so we'll see how it goes.
> >
> > 	-Mike
>
> Good points.  I've done my intro, looked at work that needs to be done,
> and volunteered services.  So, since I am ungrouped and unsponsored, is
> my next step still soliciting for an invite on the list / IRC?
>

You're still not looking at it the right way.  The way you've worded it it
sounds like you're end goal is to be in a sysadmin-* group.  You're end
goal should be finding some work to do then finding someone willing to
sponsor you to do that work.

	-Mike


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