mentoring new perl 5 porters
One of the good ideas of the Google Summer of Code was to insist that every project has a mentor; an experienced person to advise and guide the grantee. I'm wondering whether we could embrace this idea for perl5-porters. We often feel rather thin on the ground, and there are many people who might start to help, but the general feeling I get is that most find the first step daunting. Coupled with this I'm currently sitting at YAPC::EU, where there are lots of lightning talk slots free tomorrow. So I was wondering whether I should do a lightning talk about some of the approachable pure-perl tasks in the perltoto, in the hope of gaining some interest. But it would be more likely to succeed in its aim if there are actually some people who would volunteer to consider the task. I wasn't going to name anyone in a talk. People don't actually have to mentor anything - there's no shame in saying you'd consider it and then realising that you can't do it (and no need to say why) You don't need to know C. Let alone the perl source. Just have some confidence about how to go about tasks, and create well formed patches. Does this seem like a good idea? Nicholas Clark
Re: mentoring new perl 5 porters
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: One of the good ideas of the Google Summer of Code was to insist that every project has a mentor; an experienced person to advise and guide the grantee. I'm wondering whether we could embrace this idea for perl5-porters. We often feel rather thin on the ground, and there are many people who might start to help, but the general feeling I get is that most find the first step daunting. Coupled with this I'm currently sitting at YAPC::EU, where there are lots of lightning talk slots free tomorrow. So I was wondering whether I should do a lightning talk about some of the approachable pure-perl tasks in the perltoto, in the hope of gaining some interest. But it would be more likely to succeed in its aim if there are actually some people who would volunteer to consider the task. I wasn't going to name anyone in a talk. People don't actually have to mentor anything - there's no shame in saying you'd consider it and then realising that you can't do it (and no need to say why) You don't need to know C. Let alone the perl source. Just have some confidence about how to go about tasks, and create well formed patches. Does this seem like a good idea? Nicholas Clark One pure-Perl todo that's been discussed, although not in perltodo exactly, was the writing of TODO tests for perlbugs. No special knowledge is needed other than navigating through RT and creating patches for the various test files. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mentoring new perl 5 porters
On 9/1/05, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the good ideas of the Google Summer of Code was to insist that every project has a mentor; an experienced person to advise and guide the grantee. I'm wondering whether we could embrace this idea for perl5-porters. We often feel rather thin on the ground, and there are many people who might start to help, but the general feeling I get is that most find the first step daunting. Coupled with this I'm currently sitting at YAPC::EU, where there are lots of lightning talk slots free tomorrow. So I was wondering whether I should do a lightning talk about some of the approachable pure-perl tasks in the perltoto, in the hope of gaining some interest. But it would be more likely to succeed in its aim if there are actually some people who would volunteer to consider the task. I wasn't going to name anyone in a talk. People don't actually have to mentor anything - there's no shame in saying you'd consider it and then realising that you can't do it (and no need to say why) You don't need to know C. Let alone the perl source. Just have some confidence about how to go about tasks, and create well formed patches. Does this seem like a good idea? Yes. I think it would be. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e /just|another|perl|hacker/
Re: mentoring new perl 5 porters
Nicholas Clark wrote: One of the good ideas of the Google Summer of Code was to insist that every project has a mentor; an experienced person to advise and guide the grantee. I'm wondering whether we could embrace this idea for perl5-porters. We often feel rather thin on the ground, and there are many people who might start to help, but the general feeling I get is that most find the first step daunting. [...] Does this seem like a good idea? +1 -- __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://mailchannels.com
