[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Sun Jan 1 03:32:44 CET 2012

Hi everyone,
+
+Happy new year, and I hope that everyone has made a resolution to help Mageia 
+to be a better distro.
+So qualified packagers, if you haven't already, would you like to mentor one of 
+our eager apprentice candidates ?
+
+Since my last notice, we have another apprentice candidate, giving a total of 5 
+looking for a mentor.
+
+am2605 (Andrew Myers), who has been waiting now for a month.
+He is a longtime Fedora, a web developer, interested in packaging related to 
+Gnome, Java, Eclipse among others, teaching himself Mageia packaging basics.
+
+cddesjar (Christopher Desjardins),
+who has basic .deb and .rpm packaging experience, including doing texworks and 
+jags on Mageia for himself.  Would like to maintain these and R-base.
+
+dotmil (Josh King),
+who has professional experience with web apps and infrastructure and systems 
+level apps, and would like to work on similar packages for Mageia.  Open to 
+helping where needed.  Previous .deb packaging experience.
+
+luigiwalser (David Walser),
+who was a Mandrake packager (before the current build system), currently 
+working as a Linux instructor and sysadmin, interested in importing some 
+packages to Mageia that he uses.
+
+dglent (Dimitrios Glentadakis),
+who has experience packaging in his personal repos (mageia-gr.org and 
+previously mandrivalinux.gr) with applications he uses, which he would like to 
+package for Mageia repos.
+
+You can find more details at:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates
+
+Mentors, let me know who you take on, 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.
+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, it helps to also post to this list (mageia-dev), or hang out 
+on IRC at freenode #mageia-mentoring.
+
+Regards :-)
+
+-- 
+André
+(Packager mentoring program coordinator)
+
+
+