[gentoo-user] Mentors project?
I'm just wondering, is there a project meant to act as a team of mentors, ready to take on new recruits? Points: * I haven't noticed an official grouping of any sort that organizes potential mentors into a cohesive group * I noticed the #gentoo-mentors channel. It appears to be registered, and is occupied by ChanServ, but nobody (op or otherwise) is in it. I've also had some trouble in the past during my devhood journey. A lot of it is my fault for being waylaid by RL drama, but my two previous mentors had to resign due to their own RL takedowns, and it "sure would be nice" if there were a labelled team I could approach. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Mentoring has instructions for mentors, but I don't see any project/subproject on Google specifically meant to organize. Would it benefit gentoo to have "mentors" as an official project, possibly as a comres subproject?
[gentoo-user] using KDE
160921 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 21 September 2016 at 06:46, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been a happy user of Fluxbox for many years, >> but am willing to see how well KDE 5 works in 2016 . > You should install plasma-desktop and use startkde in your ~/.xinitrc . Thanks. I've been trying out KDE 5 for the past week & generally it's usable : it's about as quick to start as Fluxbox, given that it starts apps automatically, cursor movements seem smoother & some window expansions are a bit cleaner. However, I've discovered that it's not recognising the numeric pad keys : they simply have no effect, even as surplus cursor keys. There was a discussion in a forum in 2015 about this problem & it was traced back to a bug in Qt 5.5 , supposedly fixed in 5.6 . I'm using 5.6 , but the problem is still there. Has anyone else encountered this ? Are there any suggestions ? Yes, I use Numlockx & have tried all options in SystemSettings. The numeric pad works without difficulty in Fluxbox. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Mentors project?
I have also heard of the concept of Gentoo mentors in the past, though it didn't seem like anyone is specifically involved. I think it would be a nice initiative, but of course specifics then need to be drafted. For instance, should it be irc based, forum based or both? What would be the incentive for mentor-wannabes? Etc. Best regards, Andy Mender On 27 Sep 2016 17:22, "Raymond Jennings" wrote: > I'm just wondering, is there a project meant to act as a team of mentors, > ready to take on new recruits? > > Points: > > * I haven't noticed an official grouping of any sort that organizes > potential mentors into a cohesive group > > * I noticed the #gentoo-mentors channel. It appears to be registered, and > is occupied by ChanServ, but nobody (op or otherwise) is in it. > > I've also had some trouble in the past during my devhood journey. A lot > of it is my fault for being waylaid by RL drama, but my two previous > mentors had to resign due to their own RL takedowns, and it "sure would be > nice" if there were a labelled team I could approach. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Mentoring has > instructions for mentors, but I don't see any project/subproject on Google > specifically meant to organize. > > Would it benefit gentoo to have "mentors" as an official project, possibly > as a comres subproject? > >
