On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Elad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Tim Flink <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We've been trying to brainstorm ideas on how to increase the number of >> proventesters [1] and one idea was to separate out testing from OS >> Development on the join-fedora page [2]. >> >> Our rationale behind this is that a lot of the testing that needs to be >> done doesn't really require the ability to code or a deep understanding >> of Fedora. >> >> For example, a proventester should be installing (at least some) >> packages from updates-testing and giving karma to those updates after >> some use. Ideally, that person would file a new bug or add a report to >> an existing bug for any issues encountered but a vast majority of the >> updates don't have immediate issues. >> >> Our hope is that we might be able to attract more proventesters if it >> was described as a little less technical than packaging or BugZapping. >> By attracting more members, we would be able to have better coverage of >> packages for Fedora releases and not end up with so many packages in >> updates-testing for months before they can be pushed to stable. >> >> So, our questions are: >> - Would it be possible to change the groups on join-fedora? >> > Sure, it is possible. > >> - If so, is there a process for proposing the change? >> >> You first need to change it in the wiki page, > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join > Then, you need to contact the design team to make an icon for the tester > role. When you've done that, just reply to this email with the text you > want to use as a role description. I'd suggest just saying "tester" and not > proventester, because it's more clear. > When all these steps are done, I'll be able to add it to the join-fedora > page. > >> Thanks, >> >> Tim >> >> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester >> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora >> >> -- >> websites mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites >> > > > > -- > -Elad Alfassa. >
Any update on this? I really want to get it done before f16 GA. CC'ing the design team as well, because we need an icon for this role. -- -Elad Alfassa.
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