mentors

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

I have no issues in administrating it and probably need a mentor to do
that :)

I would love to not just help promote it but be a part of it.  The problem
that I found in first starting out is I had questions from reading the
manual that I couldn't find answered.  To go on a devel mailing list would
just cause issues in the fact that the people on there wouldn't want
someone new to ask stupid questions that probably could be answered else
where.

Hence when I saw that mentoring I thought what a great way for a developer
who sees for example something that might help their fellow developers or
great bit of info that he/she has written they can post on the mentoring
list as well so that the growth in knowledge and contribution to the
Fedora project can increase.

You have my full support if implemented and also my contribution.

-- 
Regards



Marc Wiriadisastra


> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:36 +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>
>> I personally have spent numerous days learning how to build rpm's as
>> well
>> as trying to follow the fedora package naming and layout conventions and
>> I
>> thought wouldn't that be a great idea.  If someone is interested in
>> learning provided they don't waste peoples time by actually WANTING to
>> contribute maybe a mentors list go get them from a newbie/basic
>> contributor to an active member of the support/devel crew.
>
> This is an interesting idea.
>
> One of the problems facing knowledgeable contributors in mentoring new
> contributors is separating the wheat from the chaff on current mailing
> lists.  When you do get a chance to mentor, the quality post is easily
> lost in the flying chaff around it.
>
> A list that was specifically for mentoring would have all manner of
> posts to it, technical, cultural, packaging, why to (v. how to), etc.
> However, the purpose for mentors to post would be to grow the knowledge
> and culture.  Getting answers in the archives where they can be searched
> and understood.
>
> In this case, a requirement (or strong suggestion) of joining the
> mentors list is to thumb through the archives.  New contributors who
> read the archives can be answering questions for other newbies, thus
> carrying on the chain.
>
> Ideally, a normal list should function in this mentoring fashion.  With
> such populated and work-intensive lists, however, the mentoring gets
> lost.
>
> Another possibility would be, when a mentor-type is posting something to
> any list that has good mentoring in it, they are asked to cross-post to
> fedora-mentoring-list.  Thus the list becomes a targeted location for
> mentoring activity all over the project.
>
> Good idea!
>
> If we work out the details, I'll sponsor starting the list, if you are
> interested in helping administrate and promote the idea.
>
> - Karsten
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