[Mageia-dev] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator

[Cazzaniga Sandro]

Le 13/06/2011 15:19, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le dimanche 12 juin 2011 18:55:58, Cazzaniga Sandro a écrit :
>> Le 12/06/2011 15:27, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>>> Hello to everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm sure there's someone among you who wants to help Mageia but hasn't
>>> found yet the good way to do it. Today is your lucky day, because
>>> there's a job that's available and can be really useful and interesting:
>>> coordinating the packagers mentoring program.
>>>
>>> You know that one key point of success for Mageia is in the ability to
>>> welcome new packagers. The better we will be at it, the better the
>>> distro will be. The packagers mentoring program has been created for
>>> that reason and several packagers have been or are being mentored. But
>>> we have some difficulty knowing who is being mentored by who and who
>>> hasn't found a mentor. And we need also to find more mentors and more
>>> apprentices.
>>>
>>> During a packagers weekly meeting, misc invited us to read the following
>>> article about mentoring programs in open-source projects:
>>> http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/
>>>
>>> I invite those who haven't read it yet, to read it. I'll quote one of the
>>> mentoring best practices that were given: "In bigger projects, keeping
>>> track of who is a mentor, and who is mentoring who, and inviting new
>>> mentors, and ensuring that no-one falls through the cracks when a mentor
>>> gets too busy, is a job of itself."
>>>
>>> I'm looking for someone who could fill that "job".
>>>
>>> Description of the job:
>>>
>>> - keep track of:
>>> -- who's being mentored by who, how well it's going
>>> -- who needs a mentor and hasn't found one yet (this is one of the most
>>> important parts: no volunteer must be forgotten, volunteers are too
>>> precious !)
>>> -- who can mentor more apprentices (and sometimes convince packagers to
>>> become mentors or accept one more apprentice)
>>>
>>> - be available for questions from apprentices or mentors, by mail, and if
>>> possible, to be present on the IRC channel #mageia-mentoring on freenode
>>>
>>> - help mentors with gathering "junior tasks" (bugzilla is a never empty
>>> reserve that can be used for that. Maybe ask the bug triage team to help
>>> identify such tasks. Maybe a "junior task" keyword in bugzilla would do
>>> the trick)
>>> -- small bugs to fix
>>> -- new small packages to import in the distribution
>>> -- backports
>>>
>>> - promote mentoring (empower users into contributers. Working with the
>>> marketing team would be great I think):
>>> -- make the mentoring program known (MLs, forums, web, etc.)
>>> -- look for new apprentices
>>> -- look for new mentors
>>>
>>> Some useful skills:
>>> - be autonomous (ie no need to check that you're doing the work)
>>> - good written english (communication is very important in this job)
>>> - knowledge about packaging is a plus but not mandatory (the key aspects
>>> can be taught to you)
>>> - being or having been a mentor, or having been mentored would be a plus,
>>> but not mandatory
>>>
>>> More information about the job:
>>> - does not require a big amount of work, but real committment to the task
>>> and regularity
>>> - remember that you have a coordination role, not an authoritative role.
>>> The difference in that is that you're not here to give orders but to
>>> facilitate the mentoring program.
>>> - you don't have to be alone to do this job if it's too much for one
>>> person: you can find other helpful people wanting to help you if needed
>>> and rely on the other teams (but finding them *is* part of your job ;)
>>> ).
>>> -  this "job offer" concerns everything that revolves around the
>>> mentoring of new packagers, but if it's successful maybe other teams can
>>> follow the same approach (i18n, QA, etc... ).
>>> -  depending on your level of confidence, experience and will, you could
>>> be helped in your work. Maybe someone from the council can supervise and
>>> help you at least at the beginning; or, if no one steps up, I can help
>>> you bootstrap and organize your new "job".
>>>
>>> So, who's in?
>>>
>>> Samuel Verschelde
>>
>> I offer my candidacy. I was mentored by shikamaru and i'm a mandriva
>> packager since 2009 and a mageia packager since the start.
>> My english level is pretty good and i'm pretty sociable.
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As explained on IRC yesterday, your candidacy is interesting, but you have 
> already so many other engagements that I would prefer someone with more 
> availability :) So keep on the good work where you're already committed :)
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Samuel Verschelde
!no problem, thanks!

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