Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com> writes: > A lot. The current process is individualized mentorship, not team > mentorship.
How so? Anyone can provide input on a question asked here, and frequently a question will get a team of mentors descending to mentor the querent. You might be talking, not about mentors, but about *sponsorship*. Yes, of course there needs to be some individual sponsoring a particular release for upload into Debian. But sponsoring is done per release per package. That's not the mentorship process, which happens in the open, in a team environment, here in discussions in this forum. > One is to use the mentors mailing list as the maintainer for mentee > packages. With this wording it's becoming clear that you don't mean “mentor”, but rather mean “sponsor”. I'll proceed on that basis. > That way the burden of quickly orphaned packages is dispersed over the > whole set of mentors rather than just one. I think it's a mistake to make a mailing list take on the role of sponsor; not everyone on this list is in a position to sponsor packages (I am not), and you get the problem that responsibility for sponsorship would be diluted. Teams should form around areas of interest and expertise in a particular kind of package. I don't think there's a useful expertise of “packages maintained by people who aren't yet Debian members”, so it's not sensible to make such a team. So I don't think a “team sponsor” would be a good idea. Rather, if packages deserve team maintenance or not, that's orthogonal to whether the package needs its releases sponsored into Debian. > The other idea is to reduce DD involvement in the mentoring process > itself by making mentees more responsible for themselves. Take a set > of mentees, have them work together to get their packages in shape, > then maybe once a month (or every couple weeks) have them show the set > of packages that they have ready to the mentors list. That would also > reduce RFS traffic on this list. This list would become more of a > coordination point for joining mentee teams. That doesn't need a separate forum though; people already come here to ‘debian-mentors’ as a forum to ask advice about packaging, and they do in fact get that advice, from Debian members and non-members alike. I agree that advice should be sought much more commonly before the RFS is sent; I think this forum is already good for that purpose. How do you propose encouraging that behaviour, though? -- \ “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, | `\ neat, and wrong.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762xhz1ft....@benfinney.id.au
