[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

[D.Morgan]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
> Any other mentors who feel that they can take on another apprentice are
> invited to post to this thread.
>
> Currently we have 4 apprentice candidates looking for a mentor.
>
> am2605 (Andrew Myers), has been waiting now about 5 weeks.
> He is a longtime Fedora, a web developer, interested in packaging related to
> Gnome, Java, Eclipse among others, teaching himself Mageia packaging basics.

when i will have a new slot free i would be interested in this package
as he knows java / eclipse. So let see when i will have one (
shouldn't be long )


>
> cddesjar (Christopher Desjardins), has been waiting about 3 weeks.
> He has basic .deb and .rpm packaging experience, including doing texworks
> and jags on Mageia for himself.  Would like to maintain these and R-base.
>
> dglent (Dimitrios Glentadakis), had been waiting about a week.
> He has experience packaging in his personal repos (mageia-gr.org and
> previously mandrivalinux.gr) with applications he uses, which he would like
> to package for Mageia repos.  He speaks French and English.
>
> cyprix (Sam Bailey)
> He is a long time Mandriva then Mageia user, who runs hosting servers in his
> work, and is interested in packaging programs for hosting and web-app
> services.
>
> Note that those who have been waiting the longest are at the top of the
> list.
>
> You can find more details at:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates
>
> Mentors, let me know who you take on, and I'll update the tables for you.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> ----
>
> Anyone else looking for a mentor, let me know so I can add your name as an
> apprentice candidate -- or you can do it yourself.
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager#Packager_apprentice_candidates
>
> See also the previous sections, on becoming a Mageia packager :
> https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php?title=Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager&action=submit#What_is_needed_to_become_a_Mageia_packager
>
> To find a mentor, it helps to also post to this list (mageia-dev), or hang
> out on IRC at freenode #mageia-mentoring.
> Don't forget that if you contact a mentor directly, they know that you are
> actively interested.
>
> Regards :-)
>
> --
> André
> (Packager mentoring program coordinator)
>
>