[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Mon Jan 9 07:25:09 CET 2012

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+when i will have a new slot free i would be interested in this package
+as he knows java / eclipse. So let see when i will have one (
+shouldn't be long )
+
+
+>
+> 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)
+>
+>
+