[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Mon Jan 9 07:04:47 CET 2012

Hi everyone,
+
+We have a newly qualified packager, kamil, who is already maintaining over 160 
+packages.  He is largely responsible for the considerabe decrease in 
+unmaintained packages in the last few days, although many other packagers have 
+contributed.
+
+We have another Mandriva packager who has joined our packaging team, nelg (Glen 
+Ogilvie), and is bringing himself up to date for Mageia with jquelin.
+
+Also note that philippem (Philippe Makowski) has just posted a message inviting 
+potential apprentices to contact him for mentoring.
+Any other mentors who feel that they can take on another apprentice are invited 
+to post to this thread.
+
+Currently we have 4 apprentice candidates looking for a mentor.
+
+am2605 (Andrew Myers), has been waiting now about 5 weeks.
+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), has been waiting about 3 weeks.
+He has basic .deb and .rpm packaging experience, including doing texworks and 
+jags on Mageia for himself.  Would like to maintain these and R-base.
+
+dglent (Dimitrios Glentadakis), had been waiting about a week.
+He 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.  He speaks French and English.
+
+cyprix (Sam Bailey)
+He is a long time Mandriva then Mageia user, who runs hosting servers in his 
+work, and is interested in packaging programs for hosting and web-app services.
+
+Note that those who have been waiting the longest are at the top of the list.
+
+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.
+Don't forget that if you contact a mentor directly, they know that you are 
+actively interested.
+
+Regards :-)
+
+-- 
+André
+(Packager mentoring program coordinator)
+
+
+