[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

Josh King josh at linuxpunks.com
Tue Jan 10 15:01:26 CET 2012


On 01/10/2012 04:17 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:04:47AM -0500, andre999 wrote:
>> We have a newly qualified packager, kamil, who is already
>> maintaining over 160 packages.  He is largely responsible for the
>> considerabe decrease in unmaintained packages in the last few days,
>> although many other packagers have contributed.
>>
>> We have another Mandriva packager who has joined our packaging team,
>> nelg (Glen Ogilvie), and is bringing himself up to date for Mageia
>> with jquelin.
>>
>> Also note that philippem (Philippe Makowski) has just posted a
>> message inviting potential apprentices to contact him for mentoring.
>
> Great news! Seems we have loads great new packagers! Could you perhaps
> announce all the new packagers over the last 2-3 months on
> http://blog.mageia.org/en/ ? Gives them a bit more visibility.. might
> result in a lot of new apprentices though (so perhaps mention
> apprentices are welcome, but might need to wait a bit for a mentor).
> Also think it is great that you get someone who guides you (mentor).
>

How about adding new packagers to planet.mageia.org as well (if they 
have a blog)? It's always fun to read what other people are up to


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