On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:35 +0100, markus korn wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Micah Gersten > <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > markus korn wrote: > >> I don't know if this has already been discussed, but can't we use > >> launchpad to organize this mentorship program? > >> My idea is to have a restricted group called similar to > >> "~ubuntu-bugs-mentorship". All mentors are administrators of this > >> group (directly or via a separate team). People requesting mentorship > >> which do not have a mentor yet are in the "Pending approval" queue. > >> All mentees are approved members of this team.
Hum. This is what I love on working as a group: each of us do not always have the answers (if at all), or we may have a not-so-good one -- and someone in the group jumps in and proposes a different approach/view. Yes, it *is* a good idea, but I just do not know the full impacts. Following on this, ideas on management: * we would need some two or three managers; this might help provide a faster response time than the one I personally have been able to provide, so far; * candidates would request membership; upon being accepted by a mentor, membership would be approved (by the accepting mentor? by one of the managers?); * candidates lose membership at the end of the mentorship -- upon receiving the end-of-mentorship report from the mentor, (one of the managers? the mentor?) does that; * we would have a mailing list. Posting is restricted to members, but subscription is free. Final reports are sent to the ML. * as far as I can see, what happens *after* the mentorship is ended is not an issue for the mentors programme. Nevertheless, we will need to clarify it. > >> This team should also be subscribed to all bugs a mentee is working > >> while participating in this program, this way it is easy to keep track > >> of what's going on. > >> > >> Markus > >> > > > > I think this would create a lot of excess bug mail. If people have > > already adopted the packages they are mentoring, they should be getting > > the bugmail of the mentees. This also would not match up mentees to > > mentors. > > > > Micah > > > > I'm personally not a big fan of this "this will create a lot of > (duplicate) mails"-argument, as your mail client should be able to > help you handling them. And we can always configure launchpad to send > all mails to the team ML instead of each team member. > My point is: I think it is mandatory to find a way to track bug > triaging activities related to the mentorship initiative to > 1.) find out how this program is going on for an individual mentee. > 2.) get an overall overview how successful this program is, how many > mentees are active at a certain point, are there some common mistakes > (maybe because of bad documentation), etc. Well, we implemented a a way to search for all bug email generated by anyone's bug work in the LP greasemonkey scripts. If, on the comment title line, you click on the Karma value -- to the right of the LP user Id), you will open a page on gmane.org, showing the most recent bug work for this person. So, it is not necessary to subscribe to the same bugs the mentee has worked on -- this will catch *all* bug work, not only those the mentee is subscribed to. ..C..
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