Anne Gentle writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Jay S. Bryant < > jsbry...@electronicjungle.net> wrote: > >> Josh, >> >> I agree that the mailing list is a hard place to provide such guidance >> and direction. I find mailing lists intimidating. Had taken me some >> time to be comfortable submitting here. >> >> After my response to this note the other day I was pinged internally via >> our messaging client asking for some mentoring. They seemed more >> comfortable introducing themselves that way and talking. I hate to >> suggest an IRC channel for this, as IRC drives me nuts, also doesn't >> seem the best fit. Maybe instead a wiki page with IRC names of people >> that are willing to be individually contacted with requests for >> guidance. I could be listed as a contact for Cinder or i18n as well as >> a general process contact. You for taskflow, etc. >> > > We started #openstack-101 for the purpose of onboarding new contributors > (not for learning OpenStack necessary). So we could use that as well as the > wiki page, which is a great idea.
Dev mailing lists could be a difficult place for a newbie to find some footing. Python's core-mentorship list is a great place for people who want to start contributing to Python, low hanging bugs are also regularly announced to help start the contributing process. Maybe having a list like that could be helpful? #openstack-101 is a great starting place, to help solving the initial blocks etc. where to contribute to, IMO, could be better suited for announcements in mailing lists. -- Abhishek _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
