On 07/23/2014 01:02 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@outlook.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night: >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547 >> >> Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too' >> >> It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a community >> offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack mentoring' shows >> mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for women... but no mention >> of mentors as a way for everyone to get involved)? >> >> Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article itself it >> seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way to get involved. >> >> Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know there >> is training work that has been worked on, but that's not exactly the same). >> >> Thoughts, comments...? >> > I'll let Stefano answer further, but yes, we've discussed a centralized > mentoring program for a year or so. I'm not sure we have enough mentors > available, there are certainly plenty of people seeking and needing > mentoring. So he can elaborate more on our current thinking of how we'd > overcome the imbalance and get more centralized coordination in this area. > > Thanks, > Anne > Mozilla also has "mentored bugs" system which provide a mentor who commits to helping a newbie get a single bug fixed. It would be nice to have that in OpenStack. It would also be a great way for people to get their feet wet in mentoring or who don't want to commit themselves too much.
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