Hi WikiTreers,
Almost every active member of our community will recognize the name Julie (Fiscus) Ricketts.
She's been a member since 2011 and has gotten really involved over the last few years. She's been an essential part of two of our most important projects: the Greeters and the Mentors. You might know her from her posts here in G2G, including the Question of the Week. You may have seen her with Mags Gaulden on the new WikiTree LiveCast video chats.
(In this photo, Julie is on the left. Mags is on the right. They're on stage at RootsTech last week giving a WikiTree demo.)
If you don't know Julie, check out her "Meet Our Members" interview.
As a team member, her first responsibility will be to help the Volunteer Coordinators Project. We've had this project going for a few years and a lot of good people have been involved with it, but I still feel like there's a lot more we can be doing to introduce members who are willing to volunteer their time and genealogical research abilities to projects and other places where their help is needed. (If you might want to help with Julie with this -- volunteer to help coordinate volunteers -- e-mail her at Julie@WikiTree.com.)
Julie will also be heading up what we might call "QA" (Quality Assurance) if we were a big corporation. Since we're not a big corporation I'll put it in plain language: bug tracking and testing.
Gaile's comment on this post from Jillaine a few hours ago is right on the mark. It's not unusual for little bugs to get reported but never fixed. Honestly, unless something really causes problems for members I sometimes don't think it's worth the trouble. It's not necessarily that fixing it would be difficult. It's that isolating, tracking and testing any change, no matter how small, has to be done very carefully. It's always possible that fixing one thing breaks something else. And we always, always, have to make sure that a change doesn't somehow expose private information. It takes time to do things right. The addition of Julie will make it easier to find the time.
Onward and upward!
Chris
