On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:36 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
2008/3/10 Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com>:
> Any objections to adding a bullet to step 4?
>
> " * You must introduce yourself to the mailing list before you can be
> approved for the 'marketing' group."
Hmm, I guess that 'fedorabugs' (which I'm semi-in charge of) is used
for the same stuff (as well as bugzilla access), and all that we
require for a barrier to entry there is cla_done, manually checked by
the sponsor (read: me) before approving the membership.
Then why bother? One cannot request group entry until one has cla_done,
but once having it, why put a human in the step? Why not make
'fedorabugs' auto-approved at that point?
The reason for the human in the step, IMO, is to humanize the process of
joining a group. Otherwise, we would get what group admins see all the
time -- people create an account and join whatever group sounds
interesting by name, without going to find out what that group is about,
how to become part of it, etc.
It would be nice if various sub-groups of the project could agree on
a
sane barrier for entry, for exactly the reasons that you mention that
I hadn't thought of before - namely voting.
Note that I'm not against the requirement to be "known" prior to being
sponsored/approved, but I think that the requirement probably needs to
extend to all groups if we're going to make it a requirement.
I'm not sure that all groups need the same requirement, although they
should have _a_ specific requirement. There is a strong history for the
self-introduction being the official "I'm joined" step. The practice is
(or could be?) to check mailing list archives for a self-intro before
approving someone to a group.
Now the big question - is FAS2 going to make all of this obsolete?
Doubtful, since it doesn't include an AI component. :D
Done!
Cool; I'm figuring we can grandfather anyone into the group who has been
active on the list; we don't need to go back and ask for self-intros.
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