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Today is your lucky day, because there's +</I>><i> a job that's available and can be really useful and interesting: +</I>><i> coordinating the packagers mentoring program. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You know that one key point of success for Mageia is in the ability to +</I>><i> welcome new packagers. The better we will be at it, the better the distro +</I>><i> will be. The packagers mentoring program has been created for that reason +</I>><i> and several packagers have been or are being mentored. But we have some +</I>><i> difficulty knowing who is being mentored by who and who hasn't found a +</I>><i> mentor. And we need also to find more mentors and more apprentices. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> During a packagers weekly meeting, misc invited us to read the following +</I>><i> article about mentoring programs in open-source projects: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/">http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I invite those who haven't read it yet, to read it. I'll quote one of the +</I>><i> mentoring best practices that were given: "In bigger projects, keeping +</I>><i> track of who is a mentor, and who is mentoring who, and inviting new +</I>><i> mentors, and ensuring that no-one falls through the cracks when a mentor +</I>><i> gets too busy, is a job of itself." +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm looking for someone who could fill that "job". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Description of the job: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - keep track of: +</I>><i> -- who's being mentored by who, how well it's going +</I>><i> -- who needs a mentor and hasn't found one yet (this is one of the most +</I>><i> important parts: no volunteer must be forgotten, volunteers are too +</I>><i> precious !) +</I>><i> -- who can mentor more apprentices (and sometimes convince packagers to +</I>><i> become mentors or accept one more apprentice) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - be available for questions from apprentices or mentors, by mail, and if +</I>><i> possible, to be present on the IRC channel #mageia-mentoring on freenode +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - help mentors with gathering "junior tasks" (bugzilla is a never empty +</I>><i> reserve that can be used for that. Maybe ask the bug triage team to help +</I>><i> identify such tasks. Maybe a "junior task" keyword in bugzilla would do the +</I>><i> trick) +</I>><i> -- small bugs to fix +</I>><i> -- new small packages to import in the distribution +</I>><i> -- backports +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - promote mentoring (empower users into contributers. Working with the +</I>><i> marketing team would be great I think): +</I>><i> -- make the mentoring program known (MLs, forums, web, etc.) +</I>><i> -- look for new apprentices +</I>><i> -- look for new mentors +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Some useful skills: +</I>><i> - be autonomous (ie no need to check that you're doing the work) +</I>><i> - good written english (communication is very important in this job) +</I>><i> - knowledge about packaging is a plus but not mandatory (the key aspects +</I>><i> can be taught to you) +</I>><i> - being or having been a mentor, or having been mentored would be a plus, +</I>><i> but not mandatory +</I>><i> +</I>><i> More information about the job: +</I>><i> - does not require a big amount of work, but real committment to the task +</I>><i> and regularity +</I>><i> - remember that you have a coordination role, not an authoritative role. +</I>><i> The difference in that is that you're not here to give orders but to +</I>><i> facilitate the mentoring program. +</I>><i> - you don't have to be alone to do this job if it's too much for one +</I>><i> person: you can find other helpful people wanting to help you if needed +</I>><i> and rely on the other teams (but finding them *is* part of your job ;) ). +</I>><i> - this "job offer" concerns everything that revolves around the mentoring +</I>><i> of new packagers, but if it's successful maybe other teams can follow the +</I>><i> same approach (i18n, QA, etc... ). +</I>><i> - depending on your level of confidence, experience and will, you could be +</I>><i> helped in your work. Maybe someone from the council can supervise and help +</I>><i> you at least at the beginning; or, if no one steps up, I can help you +</I>><i> bootstrap and organize your new "job". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So, who's in? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I> +Hello to all, + +First, thanks to those to offered to help. + +We had 3 candidates, plus one who offered help whoever will be in charge. 2 +candidates were retained (Kharec has too many duties already to take the job), +who I interviewed on IRC to try to see who would fit best. + +The 2 candidates were good, which complicated my task because I had to make a +choice, but I finally came to a decision : I propose andre999 as a mentoring +program coordinator (or facilitator, if you think it fits the job better). + +What made me choose him over Daniel Kreuter (whose candidacy was good, I +repeat it) is the fact he already showed interest in this subject before the +"job offer", has been mentored (even if the mentoring has not been completed +for now), and I already had enough occasions to exchange with him in the past +to think that he will have the required communication skills and diplomacy to +do the job. + +Now, it doesn't mean he has to be alone, so I hope than magnus will help him, +for example to bring an IRC presence at hours where André is not available due +to his timezone, and if Daniel is still interested in helping for those tasks, +I'm sure André will be glad to receive his help. + +If you have any questions or remarks, don't hesitate to comment. + +To ennael and misc : do you want to take part in the boostrapping of André's +work ? I think it could be good to avoid any misunderstandings and be sure we +set the good direction. + +Best regards + +Samuel Verschelde +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005586.html">[Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005820.html">[Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5819">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5819">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5819">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5819">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |