Re: Various things
Quoting Erinn Clark (erinn@double-helix.org):
> So basically, we have a lot of mentors and not many mentees. This isn't
> a problem, necessarily, but one thing mentioned during the Q&A at the
> Debconf5 talk Magni and I gave was that it's interesting that we have a
> surplus of mentors whereas NM tends to not have enough AMs. Is there
> anything we should be doing to rectify this situation? Some of our
> mentors are not DDs, so that could account for part of the problem, but
> I also think that some of them /are/ DDs and are also not AMs. Should we
> try to get this kind of mentoring integrated with NM? Or elsewhere? Or
> maybe just not bother and let it keep going as is?
As an involved mentor (in the list and along with Christine, on her
packages), I have some kind of clue here:
Working as AM in the NM process is perceived as a time-consuming task
where the commitment is to be important enough to have a real effect.
Mentoring seems to be a lighter task because this is only focusing on
a few things, mostly what the mentee is expecting from her/his
mentor. Up to now, for instance, this has not been a very
time-consuming task for me.
I also (but here this is purely personal opinion) keep this inside the
d-w project because I have more interests and goals in d-w ("bringing
more women to Debian") than the general NM process ("bringing more
people to Debian")
> Base:
>
> Amaya adopted the 'base' pseudopackage in the name of DW, so we need to
Has this been made kind of "official", at least with a statement by
Amaya? I remember myself suggesting this to her at the end of Anthony
Towns talk, as well as talking of this with a few of you (Hanna for
sure, maybe you also, Erinn), but nothing really "official" was made
about this.
I keep thinking this would be a good thing to do, but this was first
Amaya's decision, so I imagine that her opinion is the driving force
here.
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