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<B>Daniel Kreuter</B>
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<PRE>On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Samuel Verschelde <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">stormi at laposte.net</A>>wrote:
><i> Hello to everyone,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'm sure there's someone among you who wants to help Mageia but hasn't
</I>><i> found
</I>><i> yet the good way to do it. Today is your lucky day, because there's a job
</I>><i> that's available and can be really useful and interesting: coordinating the
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> new packagers. The better we will be at it, the better the distro will be.
</I>><i> The
</I>><i> packagers mentoring program has been created for that reason and several
</I>><i> packagers have been or are being mentored. But we have some difficulty
</I>><i> knowing
</I>><i> who is being mentored by who and who hasn't found a mentor. And we need
</I>><i> also
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> of who is a mentor, and who is mentoring who, and inviting new mentors, and
</I>><i> ensuring that no-one falls through the cracks when a mentor gets too busy,
</I>><i> is
</I>><i> 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> !)
</I>><i> -- who can mentor more apprentices (and sometimes convince packagers to
</I>><i> become
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> be taught to you)
</I>><i> - being or having been a mentor, or having been mentored would be a plus,
</I>><i> but
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> regularity
</I>><i> - remember that you have a coordination role, not an authoritative role.
</I>><i> The
</I>><i> difference in that is that you're not here to give orders but to facilitate
</I>><i> the
</I>><i> 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:
</I>><i> you can find other helpful people wanting to help you if needed and rely on
</I>><i> the
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> new packagers, but if it's successful maybe other teams can follow the same
</I>><i> 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
</I>><i> at least at the beginning; or, if no one steps up, I can help you bootstrap
</I>><i> and organize your new "job".
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So, who's in?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>Hello Samuel,
the offer sounds nice. Maybe I can give it a try?
What do I already have in my mind?
- Creating a table on Mageia wiki where someone who wants to be mentored can
put his name on, + the date he enters his name (so we can see how long he's
waiting for a mentor)
- A table with all available mentors and the actual apprentices
- On a regular base asking the mentors if they can mentor someone new or if
his apprentice is ready for a full membership
- Regular meeting where everyone can vote for a full mentorship of an
apprentice
So what do you think?
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Greetings
Daniel Kreuter
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