On Friday 08 February 2008 17:32, Mathias Gug wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:46:43PM -0500, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:56 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > I would go a bit further and suggest that while a mentor can help their > > > mentee get changes sponsored (where this is relevant), they may not > > > sponsor themselves. > > > > > > This enourages integration with the team and avoids putting mentor in > > > the position of having to say no to ther mentee and potentially harm > > > that relationship if they are unable to sponsor. > > > > > > Scott K > > > > This idea has a +1 for me, but i want to add some comments about. The > > new contributors (people who start contributing) most of the time are > > exited to start helping and they want to start NOW, no after reading the > > minimal documentation needed, so the mentors should limit themselves on > > putting goals to their mentees, and show them where to find the > > documentation about what they are trying to do, not just saying what to > > do and think for them or do for them. The mentors should just be with > > the mentees and help them to find his/her way, not to walk with them by > > the hand. > > > > About what Scott mentioned there should also be a policy of the mentors > > to not sponsors their mentees work, first for the thing he has said, and > > second because most of the time the mentors help the mentees to make the > > patches/fixes so they can not recheck they mentees work thinking that > > he/she has made exactly what they have been told to do and the correct > > way, so there can be little errors or mischecked changes uploaded. > > That raises the point of being reactive at the very beginning. The first > impression counts. So I'd suggest that the first (and second ?) upload > should be done by the mentor to get things going. It also removes the > need to read about the Sponsorship process - understanding the whole > packaging environment is already complicated. > > Once the first upload is done, the mentor should redirect to the > sponsorship process and the MOTU ressources for further help.
Sounds reasonable to me. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
