Morning Soren, Many thanks for the kinds words and the encouragement.
As you stated wonderfully and I will additionally offer a little of my mentors motivations. Debian mentors can be the first experience of contribution to not just Debian, but Free and Open Source Software projects in general. Though technical, having mentors be welcoming and friendly (we all started knowing nothing) environment with consistency of "here are the tests/standards required by all" I hope with the help of others, make mentors a successful part of the Debian project that attracts and retains contributors. I must thank Gianfranco Costamagna who initially showed me the value of Debian mentors and encouraged me to get involved. Regards Phil On Sat, 2024-07-06 at 23:18 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > After reading a number of comments to the email below, I thought I would > provide a bit of context for this email and Phil’s excellent work on Mentors. > > Recently Phil has taken it upon himself to triage every package that requests > sponsorship on mentors.debian.net. Here is an example of the work he does: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2024/07/msg00032.html > > When he feels a package is ready for sponsorship, he indicates that with an > email to the list. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2024/07/msg00024.html > > In some cases, nobody picks these up. The email below was sent to debian- > devel with a curated list of packages that Phil has already reviewed and > feels > are ready for a DD to sponsor. > > At any point, anyone can look at all of the packages on Mentors requesting a > sponsor. > > https://mentors.debian.net/ > > But I have found Phil’s work to be very helpful, as I have limited time to > handle sponsorships. When I look at a package Phil has endorsed, I can be > sure that the simple and obvious things have already been taken care of. > > I would heartily hope that Phil continues to send periodic emails to debian- > devel with lists of packages that he considers ready, but that are > languishing > on the vine because nobody has noticed them. I would also encourage anyone > else to get involved in this process if they feel so inclined. I think that > one of the most important aspects of attracting people to Debian is to make > it > easy for someone who is not yet a DD or DM to submit packages and have them > be > reviewed promptly. There is probably nothing as demotivating to a first-time > contributor as putting a lot of effort into a package, having it be in good > shape, and then never having it be sponsored simply because it didn’t get > noticed. > > Soren > > P.S. Based on Phil’s work on Mentors and my interactions with him, I have > advocated for him to become a Debian Developer, uploading. I think his > contributions to Debian will be even more impactful when he can sponsor the > packages he feels are ready. > > https://nm.debian.org/process/1305/ > > On Saturday, July 6, 2024 6:45:33 AM MST Phil Wyett wrote: > > Hi all DD's > > > > Debian Mentors[1] always struggles to find available Debian Developers for > > final reviewing and sponsoring of packages submitted too our part of the > > project. > > > > We believe some packages are ready or very close to the quality for > > sponsorship and we would request any DD who has the time and is willing, to > > have a look at one or more of the packages below and possibly sponsor them > > into Debian. > > > > Mentors page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/hexwalk/ > > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065008 > > > > Mentors page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/uriparser/ > > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074542 > > > > Mentors page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/mailgraph/ > > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074552 > > > > Mentors page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmidecode/ > > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074553 > > > > Mentor page: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/selint/ > > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074592 > > > > Your assistance will be extremely appreciated and if announcing a few at a > > time on the 'devel' list works, this could become a weekly thing. > > > > [1] https://mentors.debian.net > > > > Regards > > > > Phil > > -- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Website: https://kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg
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