On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:48:01 +0200, jdd wrote:
Le 03/06/2015 17:09, Jim Henderson a écrit :
It's a question of approach - rather than a page that lists a bunch of warnings about what not to do, have a page that lists a bunch of things that you *need to do* or *should do* in order to be a project member.
I image *three* things, and no more at the beginning of the page:
* one for people with no special knowledge (may be fixing typos or making basic wiki translations)
* one for developers: open and make active an obs account
* one for intermediate: write wiki documentation, reports bugs in bugzilla
for example
Makes sense, though I can see how these categories would grow pretty substantially. For example, the dedicated forum staff (of which I'm a member) make a pretty sustained contribution to the project, not just in terms of helping people in the forums (which could well be a valid type of contribution itself even without being official "forum staff"), but also in terms of managing the forums - moderation of posts, dealing with problem forum members (there's that overloading again <g>), and so on. But there also comes (thinking out loud) the evaluation of the actual contribution in the forums. Someone who posts hundreds of messages that aren't helpful isn't as valuable as someone who posts 20 good answers. Measuring quality vs. quantity is a long-standing forum issue (not just for OSF, either - Kim, the guy who runs our sponsor's forums, has been dealing with that issue almost as long as I've known him.) There are also other forums out there, like forosuse.es for the Spanish-speaking audience, or alionet's French openSUSE forums). Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org