On 13 June 2011 13:40, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > As I have nothing against a mentor program, nor something in favor of > one, I think it should be done right from the 1st day. And to be in > right it has to be open, by all means. Restricted lists, private > discussions, etc. have no place in OSS projects. If you don't have > access to the wiki to document your progress, pls request an account. > If anything is happening or happens, it should happen in the > respective list (doc, web, internals, pecl) and publicly. > > My doubts are more (like this thread shows) about the lack of will to > contribute (to wish something is not necessary a will). Mentors does > not or cannot create extra time in contributors days either :). To > guide the contributors through the php project is only a very small > part of the actual work, and could be explain better in our > docs/wiki/sites. > > One immediate step could be to create a 'contribute' page, > www.php.net/contribute. This page should explain the various areas one > could contribute (docs, tests, core, pecl, etc.) and how to get in > touch with the responsible developers. Maybe with a link to an issue > in the bug tracker for a given todo, or in a wiki doc (for a verbose > description).
Starting points, http://php.net/get-involved.php and https://wiki.php.net/ideas/getinvolved > > Cheers, > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, David Coallier <dav...@php.net> wrote: >> On 13 June 2011 09:06, Ifthikhan Nazeem <iftecan2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Sounds like a great idea. I have always wanted to contribute but did not >>> find a structured way to incrementally build my knowledge of the internals. >>> This might be a great way to attract new devs. >>> >> >> Hey everyone, thanks for the interest in participating as mentees. >> Just to give you an update, right now I'm trying to compile a list of >> volunteer-mentors. Once this has been done, we'll start compiling >> user-groups mentees and mentees in general. >> >> Thanks for your interest :) >> >> -- >> David Coallier >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
