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Today is your lucky day, because +</I>>>><i> there's 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 +</I>>>><i> distro will be. The packagers mentoring program has been created for +</I>>>><i> that reason and several packagers have been or are being mentored. But +</I>>>><i> we have some difficulty knowing who is being mentored by who and who +</I>>>><i> hasn't found a mentor. And we need also to find more mentors and more +</I>>>><i> 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 +</I>>>><i> the 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> ). +</I>>>><i> - this "job offer" concerns everything that revolves around the +</I>>>><i> mentoring of new packagers, but if it's successful maybe other teams can +</I>>>><i> follow the same approach (i18n, QA, etc... ). +</I>>>><i> - depending on your level of confidence, experience and will, you could +</I>>>><i> be helped in your work. Maybe someone from the council can supervise and +</I>>>><i> help you at least at the beginning; or, if no one steps up, I can help +</I>>>><i> you bootstrap and organize your new "job". +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> So, who's in? +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I offer my candidacy. I was mentored by shikamaru and i'm a mandriva +</I>>><i> packager since 2009 and a mageia packager since the start. +</I>>><i> My english level is pretty good and i'm pretty sociable. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hi, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As explained on IRC yesterday, your candidacy is interesting, but you have +</I>><i> already so many other engagements that I would prefer someone with more +</I>><i> availability :) So keep on the good work where you're already committed :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Best regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>!no problem, thanks! + +-- +Sandro Cazzaniga - <A HREF="https://lederniercoupdarchet.wordpress.com">https://lederniercoupdarchet.wordpress.com</A> +IRC: Kharec (irc.freenode.net) +Software/Hardware geek +Conceptor +Magnum's Coordinator/editor (<A HREF="http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Magnum">http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Magnum</A>) +Mageia and Mandriva contributor +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005515.html">[Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005455.html">[Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5530">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5530">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5530">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5530">[ 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> |