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

[Cazzaniga Sandro]

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.

so!
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