Nick Coghlan schrieb: > One thing that did happen though (which the messages from Jeremy & Phil > reminded me of) is that I got a lot of direction, advice and assistance > from Raymond when I was doing that initial work on improving the speed > of the decimal module - I had the time available to run the relevant > benchmarks repeatedly and try different things out, while Raymond had > the experience needed to suggest possible avenues for optimisation (and > when to abandon an approach as making the code too complicated to be > effectively maintained). > > I don't know whether or not there is anything specific we can do to > encourage that kind of coaching/mentoring activity, but I know it was a > significant factor in my become more comfortable with making contributions.
While there was no explicit management of a mentoring process, I think it so happened that committers always found a mentor. It so happened that some developer activated privileges for them (either himself, or requesting that this be done), and then certainly feels responsible for his 'student'. This automatically establishes a mentoring relationship. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
