Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:24 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 12:52 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > 
> > On þri 17.des 2013 04:26, John Dulaney wrote:
> > 
> > > Ahoy,
> > > 
> > > So, I am with Adam on this one (I'm not a mod?).  I've been +1 for this
> > > idea for quite some time now.
> > > 
> > > Johann, I've been around for a long time, even longer than Adam, and I don't
> > > remember the original purpose for the QA group; I do vaguely recall James
> > > Laska telling me it had some purpose or other when I asked him about it (oddly
> > > enough so I could be in more than the CLA group).  
> > 
> > Purpose and a fact of being "elitist" group which caused more harm
> > then good in the QA community and what I'm worried about is that Adam
> > is resurrecting it for other then purpose after he joined the WG's. 
> > 
> > If we agree it serves only the purpose to allow QA members to overcome
> > other limitation in the project and we ensure that it will *only*
> > serve and being used for that purpose I'm fine with resurrecting it
> > but as soon as Adam or any other RH employee starts to mutilate it to
> > serve it's corporate purpose we put it down. 
> 
> So it seems like in the end everyone was OK with the idea, so nirik has
> set up the 'fedorabugs' inheritance and I've thrown a bunch of people in
> the group to start the ball rolling. I'm sure I left quite a few people
> out, I just sorta randomly looked through test@ and threw on every
> regular I could see whose FAS name I happen to know.
> 
> If you're not in the group yet but would like to be, do just go ahead
> and apply - I've changed the group not to be invite-only any more - or
> ping any of the admins or sponsors, with your FAS name:
> 
> me
> cmurf
> johann
> kparal
> robatino
> roshi (mike ruckman)
> tflink
> 
> for now, if anyone else wants to be a sponsor, just ask or something.
> seven people should be enough to be going on with :) admins and
> sponsors, do go ahead and throw anyone else who obviously ought to be in
> the group into it. you can add people just by entering their FAS name
> from the group page in FAS.
> 
> as discussed, being in the group is not intended to be actually
> necessary for any QA tasks, we're just going to have it to allow you to
> get voting rights and fedorapeople space and as a
> handy-but-probably-incomplete list of people involved with QA. no plans
> to change any of our current tasks or processes to depend on group
> membership in any way.

oh, and group membership gives you 'editbugs' privs in Bugzilla, so you
can do triage.
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Adam Williamson
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