Hi Dale, some answers inline:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Dale Chalfant <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to get too formal, I appreciate the organic, but I am curious… what > would be the vision of mentoring (picture of where we would be in the > future): > > 1) Increase the population of people actively contributing to the > project > Yes. > 2) Increase the use of Stratos > Yes. > 3) Provide a means of helping to distribute work > Perhaps. > 4) ? > > In other words, why are we doing this? > > > > The vision could help frame the mission (definition of what we do) on how > mentoring is done. > > > > Which leads to the strategy (outline of how we go about the mission to > achieve the vision). > > > > > > Also curious on whether any of the other communities have done mentoring > so we could leverage what they have done (lessons learned: things gone > right, things gone wrong) rather than start from scratch. Anybody come > from an environment that had this? > I would be interested in hearing some feedback on the best practice. > > > > > Lastly, I am wondering also whether an initiative like this would have a > wiki page to promote the activity and how that is coordinated. > Page added here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/Mentoring+scheme+for+new+contributors > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Dale > > > > *From:* Dale Chalfant [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:53 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: Stratos mentors > > > > Small, bite sized, tasks are good for a few reasons: > > 1) Does not take much effort on either party > > 2) Allows for deployment or work by those who can do task > > 3) Could be rolled up to more complex activity > > > > *From:* chris snow [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > *Sent:* Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:36 AM > *To:* dev > *Subject:* RE: Stratos mentors > > > > Hi Dale, thanks for the interest! > > At the moment, I'm thinking that mentoring should be on a task by task > basis, and that we have a wiki page with a table to track tasks that need > to be done. The table could have headings like this: > > - Task overview > - JIRA link (if applicable) > - What are the benefits of the task to stratos? > - What you need to do the task (e.g. Environment and knowledge) > - What you will learn from doing the task > - Approx effort of task > - Mentor and contact email > - Mentee (when assigned) > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > On 21 Jun 2014 13:33, "Dale Chalfant" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Team: > > > > I have been tracking Stratos for about a year now off and on and chiming > in every now and then. More or less, though, I have been reading the > eMails going by. > > > > I appreciate what you all are doing, and I would like to dedicate some > time to the effort. I would like to volunteer as a mentee with a > sustainable budget of 7 hours a week. This could be an hour a weekday, and > two on Saturday. We could figure out the program together from the > viewpoint of the mentor and mentee. I expect there would be multiple > tracks for various roles, but that would be part of the discovery. > > But step at a time… > > > > What would be required from an equipment/software perspective. > > > > A bit about me: > > > > I am 50/50 Business and IT. > > > > I am an Enterprise Architect with competency in > > 1) Business architecture > > 2) Solution architecture > > 3) Information architecture > > 4) Technical architecture > > And the specialty architectures: > > 1) Service architecture > > 2) Product architecture > > 3) Security architecture > > From the EA perspective: > > 1) Governance > > 2) Policy, standards, exception to policy (waivers) > > 3) Reference model > > 4) Reference architectures > > 5) Ontology > > 6) Frameworks > > 7) SDLC > > > > It has been years since I have programmed (so be patient with me), but > formerly I did in: > > 1) Java > > 2) C > > 3) Perl > > 4) SQL > > 5) PL/SQL > > 6) COBOL > > 7) Assembler > > 8) JCL, REXX, CLISTS > > 9) BASIC (GW, Waterloo, VB, VBA) > > > > My databases: > > 1) Oracle (kept most up to date) > > 2) SQL/Server > > 3) DB2 > > 4) IMS > > 5) Berkeley DB > > 6) DBXML > > > > I have also written course materials for SOA. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Dale Chalfant > > +1-248-835-4523 > > > > [image: http://greaterbrain.com/Pages/signature.png] > > > > > > *From:* Nirmal Fernando [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:57 AM > *To:* dev > *Subject:* Re: Stratos mentors > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Devs, > > I just added a JIRA ticket for an improvement that will allows users > to install stratos from releases artifacts [1], and it got me thinking > that this task (and a few others I have added to JIRA) would be ideal > projects for new developers coming to Stratos. > > I'm still a Stratos newbie (relatively speaking), but I would be > interested in mentoring other newcomers who want to contribute to > Stratos. > > Has this been tried before? Would anyone else be interested in > mentoring Stratos contributors? > > > > Good idea Chris! I'd like to help. > > > Maybe we could have a page in the > wiki listing some tasks and the task mentors? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > --- > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-680 > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > Nirmal > > Nirmal Fernando. > PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, > Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. > > > > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ > > -- Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. http://lnkd.in/cw5k69
