2012-11-05 through 2013-01-28 - Fedora QA Meetings - recaps

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 13:10 -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Adam Williamson  wrote:
>         As always, minutes and IRC transcripts available on the wiki
>         at:
>         https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20121105
> 
> 
> 
> Would it be possible to summarize why BugZappers is getting pushed
> off?  Thanks

Well, it's agreed to retire the onboarding process for Bugzappers, just
because it's pretty much dormant: we reply to people's emails but there
are no weekly meetings, no chat in #fedora-bugzappers, no chat on this
list, and so far as I can tell, very little actual triage going on.

Additionally, there is some history to Bugzappers as a separate project
which was before my time, but as Johann has explained it to me, it was
something of a 'I'm taking my ball and going home!' thing that led to it
being set up as a separate sub-project outside of QA. So far as I can
tell, there's no-one left who's particularly wedded to that arrangement,
and I think most people left in QA agree that there's no intrinsic
reason BZ should be a separate project, and if you look at it from first
principles, bug triage is probably something that comes under QA.

Put those together, and it seems sensible to at the minimum drop the
Bugzappers onboarding process. We can probably look at moving the useful
content from the Bugzappers wiki space back into the QA space at some
future point, but right now all I'm focusing on solving is this problem
where people send self-introduction mails for BZ or proventesters and we
send back a mail saying 'hi, thanks for joining, but neither of those
projects is really active right now, so why not do one of these other
things?' - it looks pretty silly. It seems much more sensible just to
have a general QA onboarding process and have the welcome mail briefly
summarize all the currently active areas where people can help out.
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