I agree with the observations and clarifications to my post. I should perhaps have prefaced my opinion with "If I agree to mentor I assume I will [read everything] for the first x months and then monitor for problems after that"
This is why I've not mentored a project for some time. It *is* very time consuming if we are to do it right, especially at the start. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:56 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: The role of a mentor I try to be more aware early on and then ease up later after things start moving smoothly. I still watch a lot, however. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:47 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Hen <bay...@apache.org> wrote: > > ...If you > > think of someone you view as a mentor, they didn't spend all their > > time looking over your shoulder. Instead you met with them from time > > to time > and > > discussed a topic that you were looking to find clarity on... > > That's how I see my role as a mentor - I try to become aware of where > help is needed, but generally don't follow everything. > > For this I like the [mentors] subject line tag that some podlings use > to raise the mentors attention on their dev list. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
