On 12/28/2012 11:30 AM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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This doesn't happen in groups defined by geography who do not have any other responsibility, but I certainly share Sébastien's concern about groups targetting other fields.
Still concerned?
Yes :-). In my experience, creating groups will keep some from lending a hand because they don't want to sign up for anything, and keep some from engaging outside the "chain of command" because they don't want to step on someone's toes.
That is also my experience. Oh, and the opposite is my experience as well. :D Humans are amazing beasts, especially around social structures.
In any case we are not inventing anything here:
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/ https://quality.mozilla.org/teams/ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/QA_Team
and long etc.
It would be interesting to know more about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_Squad - why was created and why got stalled. That experience surely contains many good lesson for the proposed MediaWiki Group Bug Squad.
Unfortunately, I don't have any data backing this up, but you will have in some time :-). So let's just see how the numbers add up in summer.
Actually what matters is whether *you* will contribute handling bug reports. If you feel like you are contributing less and the ultimate cause is that a formal group exists, please report here - and don't wait until the Summer!