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> Once again new council has been elected: congratulations to the chosen |
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> members! And once again many nominees expressed their wishes to see more |
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> non-developer contributors to become official developers. Yet, only very |
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> few people (if any) are interested in mentoring them. I get it, the |
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> relationship between a mentor and their mentee is very intimate, and |
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> mentoring takes a lot of time. While the Github PRs are helping us |
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> increase the user contributions merged, perhaps it's distancing us from |
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> creating stronger bonds with the contributors? But more about this topic |
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> later. |
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Actually, we are doing quite well in terms of recruiting at the moment. |
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I would love to see this continue. |
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And yes, mentors are important for that. |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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