[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Tue Dec 13 05:49:45 CET 2011

Hi everyone,
+
+We have several new packagers -- barjac and malo (thanks to mentor shlomif), 
+and eatdirt (thanks to mentor obgr_seneca).  All of whom are already active 
+maintainers (with at least one package).  (malo has over 50.)
+
+We have 5 apprentice candidates, all eagerly awaiting their mentor.
+
+neocrust (Alexander Scherbakov), who has been waiting over a month,
+and has experience maintaining packages for openSuse and Lunar Linux, as well 
+as translating to Russion, and doing documentation with the Gentoo Russion team.
+
+regularlambda (Mahmut Bulut), who has been waiting almost a month (sorry for 
+missing you),
+and has experience packaging for other distros.
+
+am2605 (Andrew Myers), who has been waiting over a week,
+a longtime Fedora, a web developer, interested in packaging related to Gnome, 
+Java, Ecliple among others, teaching himself Mageia packaging basics.
+
+ajunior (Adjamiltion Júnior),
+who is interested in maintaining packages related to pinpoint, gzip, or any 
+others needing a maintainer
+
+hurdman ((Yyves-Gaël Chény),
+who develops system software and maintains a Gnu/Linux server at work.
+
+You can find more details at:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates
+(Note that this address has changed with the new wiki.)
+
+Mentors, let me know who you take on, and I'll update the tables for you.
+
+Thanks :-)
+
+----
+
+We now have 53 active packagers (maintaining at least one package), with 
+several who have yet to take a package.
+We currently have about 40 apprentices.
+Almost 80% of packages have a maintainer.
+
+----
+
+Anyone else looking for a mentor, let me know so I can add your name as an 
+apprentice candidate -- or you can do it yourself.
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates 
+
+
+See also the previous sections, on becoming a Mageia packager :
+https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php?title=Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager&action=submit#What_is_needed_to_become_a_Mageia_packager
+
+To find a mentor, you can also post to this list (mageia-dev), or on IRC at 
+freenode #mageia-mentoring.
+
+Regards :-)
+
+-- 
+André
+(Packager mentoring program coordinator)
+
+