Le mercredi 29 juin 2011 à 17:27 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
> proposal regarding mentoring program coordinator
> 
> In various parts of the proposal I assume that users with a Mageia account 
> can 
> receive email redirected to them from [email protected], to the address they 
> give on the Mageia account.  (pseudo being their mageia account name.)
> (Stormi : it should work for all packagers, but not for new users I think)
> (Which explains why it doesn't work for my account, as I'm not yet officially 
> a 
> packager.) (but it would be good to activate that for everyone.)

This is a no-go. Emails aliases are not given to everybody that ask, or
it would be meaningless :/


> 2) Mentoring coordinating team
> An informal group which works with the coordinator, to accomplish required 
> tasks.
> For the moment we have myself (andre999), Daniel Kreuter and magnus.
> 
> 
> 3) The mentoring coordinator team will monitoring IRC, mailing lists and 
> forums, 
> for those interested in becoming a packager.
> Those considering becoming packagers will often be hesitant, and we need to 
> encourage them.  So let's try to maintain contact with those who show an 
> interest.
> (It looks like we are already off to a good start.)
> 
> We would like to have an email address for the team, which would direct 
> messages 
> to all team members.
> It could be [email protected] or similar (suggested by Daniel).

We keep @mageia.org for real persons. The usual way to have a group mail
is something along [email protected], and this requires a ldap group.
( which in turn requires 1) identity account 2) a list of person, and
someone to manage the group )
 
> 4) Miscelaneous suggestions
> - Currently apprentices are promoted to full packagers by their mentor, once 
> the 
> mentor is satisfied with the competence of the apprentice.
> It has been suggested that apprentices become full packagers by vote.
> Since this is a skill position, this would be presumably be a vote by mentors 
> or 
> packagers.  Something to consider.

What is the rational for using a vote ?

> - standard email with important info and links to send to potential 
> apprentices. 
>   (This info is to be put in the potential packager section of the wiki page, 
> so 
> maybe we just send a link to that page.)
> 
> - Make list of new package requests, which are simple enough for apprentices 
> to 
> train with.

Or task such as bug triaging, patch triaging, etc.

-- 
Michael Scherer

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