On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:29:30 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable > > to find a mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one > > seemed to have the time to mentor me. > > Your recruitment bug disagrees with you here in that you had a mentor > right from the start. The recruitment bug is filed by the mentor; the bug on it own marks the time at which a mentor is willing to mentor the mentee, but it does not reflect the time at which he started to look for a mentor. > I don't see any mail on gentoo-dev or gentoo-project either. This makes me wonder if that is a good or bad idea; on the one hand, it would be nice to see a mentee step up and look for a mentor on the MLs but on the other hand that might result in some noise. After all, the relation between a mentor and a mentee is from person to person; and not from person to list. It's not really a discussion; so, I don't feel like it necessarily belongs on the MLs, unless as announcement. Even if this were considered a good idea, then how would we get people to advertise themselves on the mailing lists? There seem to be two things we need to think about: 1. Where do people find the information on how to find a mentor? 2. Where do we want people to look for a mentor? But that's one side of the story; the other side has the same questions, but at least has an answer. Mentors find the a mentee (eg. nice bug reporter) between a lot of people (eg. all bug reporters); so, it's like finding signal in a lot of noise. What we need on this other side, might be better tools to find outstanding users; but that on their own take some time to implement and might not gain much. So, I'm rooting for having a central list where mentors and mentees can find each other; I think that that would give the best of both worlds. > The [email protected] alias never saw mail from you before your recruitment > bug was openend, so how could anyone have known you were trying to > attract a mentor and do netmon stuff? > > ... > > There are exactly *nill* bugs that you reported and were > (subsequently) CC'd or Assigned to [email protected]. Not everyone wants to immediately start out on a herd. > You have only yourself to blame. Since when did this become a game of blame with him? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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