also sprach Anthony Towns <[email protected]> [2005.03.08.1930 +0100]: > I believe the main resolution needed here is to change the AM role > from one of "quizmaster" to one of "mentor" -- that is the process > of joining
I fully second and support this. While I do not have an incluence in the NM process (mainly because I cannot find the time to prepare adequatly), I make an effort to sponsor people I've seen making interesting contributions. At other times, I have handed off one of my projects for the scholar to continue. In all cases, I have tried to act as a mentor, supervising their work, providing helpful advice, identifying problems, and letting them do their own work without too much of my influence. From what I can tell, it has always worked very well, and I feel like I have very good relations with my sponsorees. And I've profitted a lot from their work (e.g. spampd, postgrey, davfs2, fuse, grsecurity, vimoutliner, zsync) because I needed it and would not have found the time to package it myself. Anyway, 'nuff said... ... I really like this proposal of yours, AJ. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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