We get a question of "this is #d-mentors, how do I get a mentor assigned" on #d-mentors every several months, for which the answer is always "there is no such thing, please ask specific questions".
But is the statement that "there is no such thing" factual? There is the [MoM][0] in the Debian Med-Team. There is the [Google Summer of Code program][1].
[0]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/MoM/-/wikis/Mentoring-of-the-Month-(MoM)
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2025Those already qualify as "structured mentorship programs", IMHO. There might be more: e.g. the [Debian Women Mentoring Program][2]. I also know that @samueloph is doing a lot of mentoring work for Debian Brazil even though I am not sure what exact form this mentoring work takes.
[2]: https://www.debian.org/women/mentoringAll I am advocating for is to simply make these *existing* opportunities more visible. Something low-key like
* If you need more guidance as a new contributor to Debian, please have a look at the [available mentoring opportunities](link to Debian wiki page where those existing opportunities are listed).
as an addition to https://www.debian.org/intro/help#coding would be a good start, I think.
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