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On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:29:30 +0200 |
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Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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> > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable |
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> > to find a mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one |
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> > seemed to have the time to mentor me. |
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> Your recruitment bug disagrees with you here in that you had a mentor |
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> right from the start. |
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The recruitment bug is filed by the mentor; the bug on it own marks the |
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time at which a mentor is willing to mentor the mentee, but it does |
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not reflect the time at which he started to look for a mentor. |
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> I don't see any mail on gentoo-dev or gentoo-project either. |
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This makes me wonder if that is a good or bad idea; on the one hand, it |
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would be nice to see a mentee step up and look for a mentor on the MLs |
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but on the other hand that might result in some noise. After all, the |
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relation between a mentor and a mentee is from person to person; and |
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not from person to list. It's not really a discussion; so, I don't |
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feel like it necessarily belongs on the MLs, unless as announcement. |
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Even if this were considered a good idea, then how would we get people |
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to advertise themselves on the mailing lists? |
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There seem to be two things we need to think about: |
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1. Where do people find the information on how to find a mentor? |
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2. Where do we want people to look for a mentor? |
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But that's one side of the story; the other side has the same |
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questions, but at least has an answer. Mentors find the a mentee (eg. |
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nice bug reporter) between a lot of people (eg. all bug reporters); so, |
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it's like finding signal in a lot of noise. What we need on this other |
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side, might be better tools to find outstanding users; but that on |
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their own take some time to implement and might not gain much. |
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So, I'm rooting for having a central list where mentors and mentees can |
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find each other; I think that that would give the best of both worlds. |
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> The netmon@g.o alias never saw mail from you before your recruitment |
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> bug was openend, so how could anyone have known you were trying to |
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> attract a mentor and do netmon stuff? |
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> ... |
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> There are exactly *nill* bugs that you reported and were |
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> (subsequently) CC'd or Assigned to netmon@g.o. |
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Not everyone wants to immediately start out on a herd. |
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> You have only yourself to blame. |
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Since when did this become a game of blame with him? |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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