Hi Ana, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 14:14 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > I see your point. In these cases, the "mentor" was more treating the GSoC > program as a bounty program or a way to have "contractors" paid at the expense > of somebody else. It wasn't a real mentoring scheme. > > This kind of mentoring "let's package this new software stack" (and create > a team to maintain it, when it doesn't exist) doesn't need to happen inside > the GSoC, it can happen already in Debian. In fact, some Debian teams already > do this, but fail to announce it clearly. When an interested user ask, > we tend to say: "if you want new version of X in Debian, we need help" instead > of "we welcome new contributors. If you don't have a lot of experience, don't > worry, we'll mentor you! Please take a look at this and if you can questions > mails us to X and/or join us in IRC" or something along these lines :) Would you mind elaborating on this? The background to this is that I am currently considering mentoring the "Leiningen & Clojure packaging" project [0] and your comments make me think twice about commiting to this. I thought that the proposal has merit and would allow an interested student to gather valuable insights into Debian and its packaging infrastructure or tooling. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#Leiningen_.26_Clojure_packaging -- Wolodja <debian@babilen5.org> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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