[Mageia-dev] looking for a mentor

Mon Apr 11 18:39:00 CEST 2011

On 11/04/11 17:58 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 11 April 2011 13:02, Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > note: i was the previous mentor.
+> >
+> > i prefer to step down from mentoring michal, not because of him but
+> > because of my skills: as michal wants to work on a new toolchain with
+> > low-level compilers, assemblers and other such tools, i really feel not
+> > comfortable enough about my own knowledge to really answer his
+> > questions.
+> >
+> > therefore, if you think you are comfortable enough with said subjects,
+> > don't hesitate to step up: michal is a nice guy, listening to
+> > suggestions, and eager to work on his packages!
+> >
+> > sorry for the false hope to michal, but i hope he will find someone that
+> > will be able to follow him in his quest!
+> 
+> Maybe can you still mentor him, on the packaging side (quality, rpmlint, ...)
+
+even for those questions, i cannot really answer. example: fasm package is
+compiled with a -m32 option - is it ok? well maybe not, but in that case
+the package cannot be compiled. and this is just the tip of the
+iceberg...
+
+my core skills is about perl packaging, and packages using a standard
+toolchain (configure / make / make install). my c-foo is long gone, and
+i never had the rpm-foo to deal with complex packaging such as
+non-standard, "bare-bone" compilation toolchain.
+
+i can continue mentoring michal, commenting on the rpm quality that i
+can handle and pushing his packages - but that would not be fair towards
+michal, since in that case i'm not fully playing my role of mentor.
+
+jérôme 
+-- 
+jquelin at gmail.com
+