Looking for Ideas on a User-friendly Join Process

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Sat Dec 27 07:49:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:49:14PM -0500, David Nalley wrote:
> 
> One of my complaints is how high the bar is set - I'll pick on docs
> for a minute - the listing there is for a content writer. That's
> despite the fact that virtually none of the new contributor tasks are
> content generating. The initial tasks are designed to get you familiar
> with processes and Fedora, such as wiki Gardening, fact checking
> documents.
> 
> That said, I don't know that I have a solution that allows you to
> present the entry level work as simply as what's presented there.

One idea we've discussed is grabbing interests and skills from people
(which get associated with their user account), and pairing those up
with needs from various sub-projects.

This requires the sub-projects to thing more deeply about skills and
interests that tie to their areas.

It also requires some automagic, maybe something a little wizard like
to grab and compare skills and interests.

> Another thing is that functions like QA and BugTriage aren't really
> represented. Admittedly they are listed under the OS Developer
> section, but how many non-OS Developers are going to choose that to
> see that Bug Triaging is an option. There are a number of projects
> within Fedora that aren't prominently featured.

Agreed, the categories under wiki/Join (for example) are pretty old by
now; we've added more subtleties to the Project since then.

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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