[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Sun Oct 2 08:34:30 CEST 2011

Hi everyone,
+
+We now have 44 active packagers maintaining at least one package (out of 
+about 65 who qualify as packagers), as well as about 40 apprentices.  In 
+the last few weeks 8 packagers have started to contribute actively (now 
+maintaining from 1 to 119 packages), including alien, bcornec, eandry, 
+erwan, julien, lebedov, ovitters, steletch, and zezihno.
+A number have been Mandriva packagers, but at least 3 have apprenticed 
+with Mageia.
+(If you notice me being a little vague, they don't tell me everything ;-) )
+
+----
+
+We still need to increase the number of packagers.
+
+We currently have 2 apprentice candidates, who would very much 
+appreciate the helping hand of a mentor :
+
+Juergen Harms (juergen_harms), who has been waiting a little over a week.
+He has some personal mdv packaging experience, as well experience with 
+C, perl, Unix, and good network skills.  He is interested in maintaining 
+backuppc and geda.
+(He speaks German, French, and English)
+
+J-C Stiegler (jc_steigler), who has been waiting almost a week.
+He is a Linux user since 1995, has a little personal rpm packaging 
+experience, and is interested in packaging flightgear.
+(He speaks French and English)
+
+More info on your future apprentices at
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packages_mentoring#packager_apprentice_candidates
+
+Mentors, just let me know which apprentice you choose, and I'll update 
+the tables for you.
+
+Thanks :-)
+
+----
+
+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.
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packages_mentoring#packager_apprentice_candidates 
+
+
+See also the section just above, on becoming a Mageia packager :
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packages_mentoring#becoming_a_mageia_packager
+
+To find a mentor, you can also post to this list, or on IRC at freenode 
+#mageia-mentoring.
+
+Regards :)
+
+-- 
+André
+
+