On 07/23/2014 02:16 PM, Cindy Pallares wrote:
On 07/23/2014 01:02 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@outlook.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547
Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too'
It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a community
offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack mentoring' shows
mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for women... but no mention
of mentors as a way for everyone to get involved)?
Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article itself it
seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way to get involved.
Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know there
is training work that has been worked on, but that's not exactly the same).
Thoughts, comments...?
I'll let Stefano answer further, but yes, we've discussed a centralized
mentoring program for a year or so. I'm not sure we have enough mentors
available, there are certainly plenty of people seeking and needing
mentoring. So he can elaborate more on our current thinking of how we'd
overcome the imbalance and get more centralized coordination in this area.
Thanks,
Anne
Mozilla also has "mentored bugs" system which provide a mentor who
commits to helping a newbie get a single bug fixed. It would be nice to
have that in OpenStack. It would also be a great way for people to get
their feet wet in mentoring or who don't want to commit themselves too
much.
I was a student in the OpenStack Upstream Training training that took
place before the Atlanta Summit. The training was great, but the weekly
mentoring afterward really made the experience worth while. Students
selected bugs before the class, learned about the contribution process
during the class, and then met weekly with a mentor until their
contribution was merged.
Thanks,
Tim
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913-207-0983 | @timfreund
http://tim.freunds.net
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