mentors for new maintainers
While cleaning up my inbox, I was reminded of the idea that was brought up a
while ago. The idea of "mentors" who would help new maintainers to get
acquainted with the project. The idea is that the new maintainer would be
assigned a mentor when he applies for an account on master, and would be able toask "mentor" any questions he wants to.
This will eliminate most of the "newbie" questions on debian-devel. It also
allows the newbie maintainer to ask the "stupid" questions without being
afraid to waste the bandwidth on a public list. These questions do not have
to do directly with packaging, but also pertaining to some ideas which might
have already been discussed in the past (like "let's rewrite dpkg in C"
proposal due to be out soon :-) ), or questions about the list structure,
"who is who" among developers etc.
Last time, everyone seemed to agree on this, but Fernando (who volunteered to
coordinate) disappeared. This time, I'd like to step up, and, no I don't plan
to disappear :-).
Comments?
Anyone who would like to be a mentor, please email me. I do not think we need
many. 5-10 people would suffice, I think.
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Igor Grobman igor@debian.org igor@digicron.com
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