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joshua jackson <tsunam@g.o> posted 47C4A08C.3040708@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:28:12 -0800: |
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> Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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>> joshua jackson a écrit : |
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>>> 2) We need mentors, so far confirmed I have: Diego and Saleem |
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>> What kind of work is involved there? I wouldn't mind being a mentor but |
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>> I'd like to know a bit more about what's expected from a "good" mentor. |
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> There's a few requirements. Being decent in a language or multiple |
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> languages would certainly be a plus, as the students are writing code. |
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> having someone writing something in C or C++ when you've never touched |
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> it wouldn't exactly work out that well obviously. |
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> Having time to interact with the student as well. [snip] |
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I saw some discussion earlier about the possibility/goal of having backup |
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mentors as well. Someone that would keep familiar enough with what's |
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going on to step in if the primary mentor has "things" happen and isn't |
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as available as they intended to be, but (unless the two team as true co- |
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mentors) wouldn't need to do the detail code reviewing, performance |
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auditing, or whatever, unless those "things" /did/ happen to the primary |
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mentor. |
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IOW, someone to keep the whole project afloat if something does happen to |
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the primary mentor/gentoo-contact-point. If I'm not mistaken, the |
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original comment I read suggesting this pointed out that there had been a |
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need for a backup mentor for at least one project, that had ended up not |
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going much of anywhere because there wasn't one. Such a run of events |
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would certainly be a shame, both for Gentoo and for the student in |
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question, so if it can be avoided... |
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Of course, with only two mentors (now possibly three) volunteered so far, |
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that's not so practical, but perhaps there are some who would prefer to |
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avoid primary mentorship if possible, but wouldn't mind doing it if it |
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becomes necessary to avoid /dev/null-ing the project. |
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It's also possible some would be available as co-mentors. |
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So anyone qualified and interested, I'm sure it'll help both Gentoo and |
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the student you backup- or co-mentor. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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