On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 08:54:08PM +0200, Alex wrote:
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?
Yes, to my knowledge. I've seen those two links in earlier emails.
There is the [MoM][0] in the Debian Med-Team.
Is or was?According to that page, last updated 3 years ago, while there was some significant activity in 2014-2015 (10 years ago) it died out around 2017.
It was also team-specific.
There is the [Google Summer of Code program][1].
I don't think you can seriously compare GSoC and things discussed here (which is helping random inexperienced people at random time with usually relatively minor tasks such as making a package or other contribution). They conflict by basically every parameter.
All 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.
I think this will just create more noise for admins of those initiatives but sure. I would also be demotivated as a new contributor seeing such a list that exists but cannot help me, but, again, sure.
-- WBR, wRAR
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