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. On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:56 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 12:47, Mathias Gug wrote: > > > * Even though the initial communication can be hold privately, the > > mentor should push for using public channels (IRC channels, > > existing mailing lists) in order to fully integrate the new member > > in the team. > > This answers my most pressing concern with the existing MOTU mentors program. > > 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 > -- aka nxvl Peruvian LoCo Team Key fingerprint = 8104 21CE A580 7EB7 5184 8DFF 6A3A D5DA 24DC 6AF5 gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 24DC6AF5
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