On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > I guess I would encourage you to do as Luciano suggests, and to chat to > mentors on a project that you might help with.
Great. Lets make it practical -- there's a Helix project that is currently being proposed for incubation. I'm very much interested in helping it to grow into a TLP eventually. Given how closely it aligns with some of the things we're trying to do in Bigtop -- I'm definitely joining the community. What are the next steps for me, if I would like to volunteer some of my time to support the formal mentors of the project? What about any other project that is being proposed for incubation? Should it all just be on an ad-hoc basis where I reach out to existing mentors and offer my help? > It is not uncommon for mentors to feel stretched, and thus might appreciate > some help with their mentoring duties. Simply joining a community is definitely very, very useful, but I guess what I was alluding to is a notion that the official IPMC members can count on somebody coming as a Jr. Mentor as far as handling some of the more mundane tasks of mentoring is concerned. Of course, everything in Apache is done by volunteers, but there are are different levels of this volunteer commitment. It just so happens that formal mentors are expected to volunteer a bit more of their time to help podlings. Members of the podling community know that they can reach out to mentors and expect an answer, where's if they simply reach out to the community (or any particular member of the community) there's no presumption that cycles will be available. Hence my suggestion -- a more designated role that can be viewed by the podling community in the same way as they view mentors. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
