Hi, Good proposal Jesse!
The goal of this activity is to strengthen the contact between mentors and newcomers and introduce more contributors to the community. What Justin cares for maybe the "vote" process. I think all committer/PMC and enthusiastic contributors could be a mentor without vote. Becoming a mentor may need to share the personal contact information(email/wechat/slack/twitter, etc), students may not be used to ask questions in the public mail list. So I think self-recommendation is ok :) Thanks, -- Jialin Qiao School of Software, Tsinghua University 乔嘉林 清华大学 软件学院 > -----原始邮件----- > 发件人: "Xiangdong Huang" <[email protected]> > 发送时间: 2020-12-24 10:19:44 (星期四) > 收件人: dev <[email protected]> > 抄送: > 主题: Re: [Discussion] Suggestion of initiating the “Community Mentors” Project > > Hi Justin, > > The cause of this idea is Jialin and I had some talks in several > Universities in China last month, and there were tens of undergraduate > students > showed the interests in joining the community and the project. We are > thinking how to let them really join the community, rather than just saying > "ah, I am interested in it. and that's all". > But as they are Sophomore or Junior, they have no experiences about how to > contribute to the Open Source and how to develop IoTDB > (we have to tell them step by step, from how to import IoTDB into their > IDE to how to debug and submit PR). > > In the beginning, they are not familiar with Apache Way (even includes > using mailing list), > and at this time, someone who can give him/her a detailed guide will let > him/her know how to ask for help on the mailing list and the community. > > Best, > ----------------------------------- > Xiangdong Huang > School of Software, Tsinghua University > > 黄向东 > 清华大学 软件学院 > > > Justin Mclean <[email protected]> 于2020年12月24日周四 上午5:43写道： > > > Hi, > > > > I be curious to know why this needs to be formalised like this. People can > > help out as needed / when required, having a role like this may actually > > stop others (who are not recognised as mentors) from helping. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin </[email protected]></[email protected]></[email protected]>
