On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 00:38, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 15:26 +0200, Romain d'Alverny a écrit : > >> Each team will have to decide on itself, for the next two weeks: >> >> * what is in the mentoring program exactly (for instance, Packaging team >> has to take into account alternative packaging practices and explain >> why/how it is expected to work in Mageia and how it could evolve); > > Hu ? > ( ie what "alternative packaging practice" ? )
Well, I guess that not all that enlisted in the packaging team are from the Cooker packagers group. So there are a process, documents to agree all on so that the whole Team works well together. Process for working together (according to set standards - here in this case, I believe we should base all this on current Cooker practices and policies - but it's best that the Team itself decides on its own). Discussing it further with founding members (mentoring program, how to apply), here are a few _important details_. All teams discussion channels should be of public access (at least one place to join and follow what happens). Teams are made of at least two sub-groups (from a credentials point of view): * "Apprentices" (people being mentored into the team - someone suggested "petit scarabée" as a label but...) * and "Masters". Depending on Teams, there may be more than that (for instance, Web team may have apprentice, master, webmaster or a more specific role - vetoing what goes online for instance). The idea is that Masters have voting power within the team (for decisions or leader election) and full rights on the infrastructure. Apprentices have no voice yet and less rights on infrastructure, provided they are being mentored. It's then up to Masters to decide if an Apprentice makes it to Master or not. That's the reality behind the mentoring process. Now, to start the train, we've got to figure who will be first Masters and Apprentices. We expect everyone to be square on this and would like to start with the following rule, provided things go smoothly after. We are suggesting here for packagers only, that's a specific case. Each team should come up with its own agreement. Packaging Team Masters are those who are Cooker maintainers as of today. Others are Apprentices. Packaging team should focus then on build-system setup and mentoring process. Apprentices may become masters at any time, it's up for each team to decide. Should there be any conflict or gray-zone, don't get upset, just tell us and we will try to sort this out. In last resort, of course, the founding board will decide if needed. Oh and we ought to setup mailing-lists for each team shortly. Note that this somewhat chaotic step is happening only to start the whole thing. Thanks a lot for your comments and points. Cheers, Romain
