Hello devs, The Ubuntu MOTU Mentoring program has been dormant for some time but is now being restructured. The Mentoring Reception team has come up with a new proposed program that incorporates designated development teams. We are seeking feedback on our proposed program [1], and would appreciate comments from MOTU, development team members, and the DMB.
A detailed description is given at [1], but here is a general summary: The program will change from a MOTU mentoring program to a Developer Mentoring program. The new program will have two levels: "General Mentoring" and "Specialized Mentoring." The general mentoring program will take novice devs (some packaging, bug triage/fixing, or patch reviewing experience) and pair them up with volunteer mentors. The mentee will work with the mentor to gain experience in package maintenance in Ubuntu, coordination with upstreams, etc. and eventually reach ~universe-contributor level ability. Specialized mentoring will pair a ~universe-contributor level mentee with a member of a designated development team (MOTU, Desktop, Kubuntu, etc.) with the goal of eventually joining that team. Mentoring will occur in public channels (motu-mentors mailing list, IRC, etc.), and coordination of the mentoring program will occur in a private mailing list (so mentors can speak freely about their experience with students and express with whom they would like to work.) Assignment and tracking of mentees will occur on Launchpad, similar to how the Debian Maintainer program tracks their applicants. See the wiki for more details and reply with your feedback! Keep <motu-mentoring-recept...@reponses.net> cc:ed on your responses (that is the private list), and you may speak privately to the team through that address. Also, if you are interested in mentoring or helping out with the reception team, please reply to <motu-mentoring-recept...@reponses.net> with whether you would like to be a "general" mentor and/or a "specialized" mentor (and what team). The program won't start until we have worked out some more technical details, but we would like to start including future mentors in planning and the first implementation of the program. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/MentoringReception/MentoringProposal Regards, Scott Howard -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
