Hi there, A few days ago I filled a bug on "contributing.txt" (#6320) [0] about clarifying what triagers are, what volunteering means and who should do what.
That was mostly motivated due some tickets in which volunteers marked as
Ready for checking and "more official" triagers prefered this status
change to be a bit more restricted (having the volunteers disasspointed
as contributing.txt says they can, or should, do so to help).
Right now the patch on the ticket distinguishes Triagers in two
roles/types:
* Trusted Triagers: Those who have proved their triaging
criteria and are (somehow) officially recognised as "Triagers".
* Community Triagers (Volunteering Triagers or Community
Members): Those willing to help that triage bugs while trying to
prove their criteria.
A few tips are given for this last role, not completely
forbidding the most important actions but restricting them a bit
like:
- Do not close bugs as "wontfix", see the definition of
"wontfix" below, but in general, it's a decission in
hands of *core developers*.
- Do not promote tickets to "Ready for Checkin" unless
you feel confident about the patch provided and you are
not related to the ticket itself (You know, it's not
good to judge oneself's work).
- Only close tickets as "invalid" if those are clear
cases like help requests which sould be placed to
``django-users`` (tell so when closing the ticket).
SimelyChris marked the ticket as "Design decision needed" and asked me
to bring the ticket to the list for further discussion. While discussing
the ticket I'd be glad if you can propose names for the "Community
Triagers/Volunteers/Community Members".
I did not call the role "Community Members" to distinguish the
volunteers from Community Members, but maybe it would stay clearer with
this name.
So, comments and critics are really welcome. I just feel that this
clarifications should be written in the documentation some day to avoid
getting people upset (one could think that things got a bit hot on #399
[1]).
Cheers,
Marc
[0] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6320
[1] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/399
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