On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:52:09 +1100 Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:30:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > >> Yeah, that's a great idea! We should setup a mailing list where they > > > >> can > > > >> get together and ask questions of each other and request someone to > > > >> sponsor > > > >> their packages! > > > > > > > > What's so crazy about that? What would be so wrong with empowering > > > > mentees to help themselves? > > > > > > I think you missed his point. ;-) Such a list already exists. It's > > > called debian-mentors. > > > > OK, I see the attempt at irony now; although that really misses my > > original idea, which is to revamp the mentoring process with more of a > > team-based focus. > > On the contrary; what is different about a team of people within Debian who > wish to assist and mentor potential new developers, as opposed to the > membership of the debian-mentors mailing list?
A lot. The current process is individualized mentorship, not team mentorship. Again, there are two new ideas that I am suggesting. One is to use the mentors mailing list as the maintainer for mentee packages. That way the burden of quickly orphaned packages is dispersed over the whole set of mentors rather than just one. Perhaps that will encourage more DD participation since they won't stick themselves with a lot of orphaned packages. The other idea is to reduce DD involvement in the mentoring process itself by making mentees more responsible for themselves. Take a set of mentees, have them work together to get their packages in shape, then maybe once a month (or every couple weeks) have them show the set of packages that they have ready to the mentors list. That would also reduce RFS traffic on this list. This list would become more of a coordination point for joining mentee teams. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
