hi, As I have nothing against a mentor program, nor something in favor of one, I think it should be done right from the 1st day. And to be in right it has to be open, by all means. Restricted lists, private discussions, etc. have no place in OSS projects. If you don't have access to the wiki to document your progress, pls request an account. If anything is happening or happens, it should happen in the respective list (doc, web, internals, pecl) and publicly.
My doubts are more (like this thread shows) about the lack of will to contribute (to wish something is not necessary a will). Mentors does not or cannot create extra time in contributors days either :). To guide the contributors through the php project is only a very small part of the actual work, and could be explain better in our docs/wiki/sites. One immediate step could be to create a 'contribute' page, www.php.net/contribute. This page should explain the various areas one could contribute (docs, tests, core, pecl, etc.) and how to get in touch with the responsible developers. Maybe with a link to an issue in the bug tracker for a given todo, or in a wiki doc (for a verbose description). Cheers, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, David Coallier <dav...@php.net> wrote: > On 13 June 2011 09:06, Ifthikhan Nazeem <iftecan2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sounds like a great idea. I have always wanted to contribute but did not >> find a structured way to incrementally build my knowledge of the internals. >> This might be a great way to attract new devs. >> > > Hey everyone, thanks for the interest in participating as mentees. > Just to give you an update, right now I'm trying to compile a list of > volunteer-mentors. Once this has been done, we'll start compiling > user-groups mentees and mentees in general. > > Thanks for your interest :) > > -- > David Coallier > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
