Re: the mentoring program
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:36:15AM +0100, Lesley Binks wrote [edited]:
> I don't know how much work that takes or how well automated it is
> e.g.. have person x who wants to help, possibly on (a) particular
> package(s) or any package in a particular activity (e.g. music, LaTeX
> ) or using particular languages, is known to A,B,C, has skills L,K,M,
> has certain required/desired skills
> how well is that info matched up to packages or activities
> needed particular skill sets ...
> and the people who are prepared to mentor them
This sounds very similar to a wnpp-by-tags extension I have listed in my NM
application TODO.
The existing wnpp-by-tags allows one to find wnpp bugs using the debtags of the
package a bug belongs to. The idea is to further (semi)auto-annotate bugs with
new facets such as
- skill::{packaging,l10n,i18n,organisation,design,web,coding,..}
- time-commitment::{hours,days,weeks,months,long-term}
and of course reuse official relevant debtags, eg. implemented-in::* when
skill::coding applies.
Mentors would express their interests in terms of debtags (or perhaps with a
'mentor' usertag in the bts for specific bugs). Mentees would query for
mentor-tagged WNPP bugs that satisfy their skills and interests.
Not sure whether it sounds like overkill, but I think it'd be good to couple
the mentoring scheme with real needs as they're reflected in the BTS.
Comments?
Cheers,
Serafeim
wnpp-by-tags src: http://github.com/sez/wnpp-by-tags
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debtags-organised WNPP bugs: http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/wnpp
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