[Mageia-dev] proposal regarding (packager) mentoring program coordinator

Fri Jul 1 15:44:50 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 29 juin 2011 à 17:27 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
+> proposal regarding mentoring program coordinator
+> 
+> In various parts of the proposal I assume that users with a Mageia account can 
+> receive email redirected to them from pseudo at mageia.org, to the address they 
+> give on the Mageia account.  (pseudo being their mageia account name.)
+> (Stormi : it should work for all packagers, but not for new users I think)
+> (Which explains why it doesn't work for my account, as I'm not yet officially a 
+> packager.) (but it would be good to activate that for everyone.)
+
+This is a no-go. Emails aliases are not given to everybody that ask, or
+it would be meaningless :/
+
+
+> 2) Mentoring coordinating team
+> An informal group which works with the coordinator, to accomplish required tasks.
+> For the moment we have myself (andre999), Daniel Kreuter and magnus.
+> 
+> 
+> 3) The mentoring coordinator team will monitoring IRC, mailing lists and forums, 
+> for those interested in becoming a packager.
+> Those considering becoming packagers will often be hesitant, and we need to 
+> encourage them.  So let's try to maintain contact with those who show an interest.
+> (It looks like we are already off to a good start.)
+> 
+> We would like to have an email address for the team, which would direct messages 
+> to all team members.
+> It could be mentoring at mageia.org or similar (suggested by Daniel).
+
+We keep @mageia.org for real persons. The usual way to have a group mail
+is something along foo at group.mageia.org, and this requires a ldap group.
+( which in turn requires 1) identity account 2) a list of person, and
+someone to manage the group )
+ 
+> 4) Miscelaneous suggestions
+> - Currently apprentices are promoted to full packagers by their mentor, once the 
+> mentor is satisfied with the competence of the apprentice.
+> It has been suggested that apprentices become full packagers by vote.
+> Since this is a skill position, this would be presumably be a vote by mentors or 
+> packagers.  Something to consider.
+
+What is the rational for using a vote ?
+
+> - standard email with important info and links to send to potential apprentices. 
+>   (This info is to be put in the potential packager section of the wiki page, so 
+> maybe we just send a link to that page.)
+> 
+> - Make list of new package requests, which are simple enough for apprentices to 
+> train with.
+
+Or task such as bug triaging, patch triaging, etc.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+