Ambassador mentoring and membership process changes

Fedora Ambassadors Revamp Update

The Fedora Ambassadors program is currently undergoing a revamp. More details can be found at [1].

Background

Original Idea(s)

The idea was proposed by Jorge Simon:

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2013-July/001383.html

Main reasons

Then some main reasons were listed by Christoph Wickert:

• We should share the workload.
• We should not have a single point of failure.
• The mentors do all the work of the sponsoring process, in return they should be rewarded with more recognition and responsibility.
• Sponsoring somebody and closing his ticket is just a few clicks. No big deal for a mentor, but it can become a lot of work for a single person.
• As the mentors are filing the tickets, they should also close them.
• The process would be consistent with all the other groups where sponsors == mentors.

Proposed Changes

• Give the Mentors to sponsor their own candidates.
• The owner of last step (Approval) of the current Ambassador Candidate Ticket Management process should be changed to Mentor who opened the ticket at the beginning.

What Mentor Do

• Mentor will set the Ticket Milestone to "SPONSORED" and Ticket Status to "Resolve as Fixed"
• Mentor do "Approve" to officially sponsor the candidate in Ambassadors FAS group.
• Mentor send Welcome message to candidate
• (the other approach is keeping FAmA the right to send Welcoming messages)