Combining Roles to Create a New Contributor Ladder
Table of Contents Our Current LadderNew OptionsOption 1: The New Ladder under the Proposed UpdatesOption 2: A Unified Contributor Ladder While @devinmaeztri and I have been working on ways to make our current mentor program more flexible and inclusive something interesting came to light: our current contributor journey is more like a maze than a ladder. The Community Team has multiple areas of contribution, most of which can only be accessed through separate applications. This makes the system difficult to navigate and can result in frustrated contributors, as well as a lot of extra unnecessary questions and tasks to be done. Beyond the difficulties of moving between the roles, questions arose about overlapping roles and access to tools. We realized we could continue as we have and continue to build on the complex structure we have now, or we could choose as a group to make some small changes that refine the entire contributor experience. Before we dive into those changes, let’s take a look at our current contributor ladder. Our Current Ladder Here you can see what I’m talking about. We require a new application to move from one stage to the next. Each application takes time to vet…
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