Re: Four days

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:37:19 -0700 PJ Weisberg wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:30:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > >> Yeah, that's a great idea!  We should setup a mailing list where they can
> > >> get together and ask questions of each other and request someone to sponsor
> > >> their packages!
> > >
> > > What's so crazy about that?  What would be so wrong with empowering
> > > mentees to help themselves?
> > 
> > I think you missed his point. ;-)  Such a list already exists.  It's
> > called debian-mentors.
> 
> OK, I see the attempt at irony now; although that really misses my
> original idea, which is to revamp the mentoring process with more of a
> team-based focus.

On the contrary; what is different about a team of people within Debian who
wish to assist and mentor potential new developers, as opposed to the
membership of the debian-mentors mailing list?

- Matt