-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 19:14 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hey, > > maybe a kind of "mentoring" program could also help?
We have discussed this, yea, and in general we're all in favour of some sort of mentoring program. Now, the issue comes up when we discuss the implementation details. > > I consider this as helpful, because in my initial open source > contributions at debian, i had some questions I felt too > "embarrassed" asking them on a mailing list or in a IRC channel. I > thought these question were too basic/obvious and therefore I was > hesitating of asking. > > Fortunately, the debian mentoring program caused one person to be my > personal contact person. And well, I felt less hesitated asking him > those "silly" questions than asking them on a open mailinglist. > > => The point is, asking a dumb question to one person is in my > opinion easier than asking a dumb question on a whole mailinglist > with maybe hundreds of people reading it. > > Therefore, i think providing one particular contact person to ask any > question may result in less hurdles for newbies. I'm personally against a single point of contact system. It works in quite a few cases, but it also doesn't in quite a few. The ambassadors are using such a process, and there are quite a few cases where for whatever reason, the mentor goes MIA, or the menatee goes MIA. It could be because in the ambassadors process, there are many newbies and few mentors, and the workload is quite heavy to carry as a result. So, I'm more in favour of "pool mentoring", where you have a "pool of mentors" that mentor a "pool of newbies". This way, newbies have more than one point of contact. This has its own issues, though. Like you said, newbies may prefer a more personal one to one style of mentoring - - they may feel the same fear when it comes to asking "stupid" questions to a pool of mentors. Community members putting themselves out there to be asked questions may be the middle ground here - you don't officially have a mentor, but you know a few people that are happy to receive personal e-mails and the sort. I wonder how we can encourage this without causing community members an overload? Historically, we did have a team of mentors - I don't know why it died out. We could reignite it required - we need to keep discussing this. - -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXxgblAAoJEPjYwL66yJi9jQ4H/RgTExuFbl6ylTQ/Is+ezQL9 xpdcCLEN14TkJYDm6sLyfhsZ0taWvxsjzkwlzh0HP9zzKmJpsmEgsBFVwPQDLRKv jcxZMGL+7llbIf9zklHMCZQul29LUcMTgDE6zkGiG74BWAMtLaYzJFLoX7vWzbzL uZxYsaxlEG2gmRkclEheY23LRdVZwm1Yc/2kUsBIINzk162/PTR8JaFds4u1jdTb jyBHJoTJ8mRaUuvhOF1gbnkwSbit3LbAEvjq/QWzswIOUSxbCEP6ttsUCNtCYjib YMZfCmh7hcu+eoE5gM3UfUn16ZE7UmHLf7q02pYDYnr3FasxygASnH5DVlXyF/o= =TeqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
