Re: Mentoring? (was: Re: [gnome-love] newbie)

[Magnus Therning <magnus therning org>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:45:21PM +0200, Alejandro Andres wrote:
> On 4/28/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
> > > Florian Rivoal a écrit :
> > > > I'd be very glad to find such a "mentor", who
> > > would tell me something
> > > > like: "So we're working on *****, and here is
> > > basicaly how it works:
> > > > [...]. But the **** module would need some love to
> > > get to the point
> > > > where it can do ****. I suggest you try to ***
> > > using ***. And get back
> > > > to me if there's something you're not sure about.
> > > I'll point you to the
> > > > proper doc, or explain if there is no such doc."
> >
> > Would a mentoring scheme like that be a good idea to
> > try and set up?
> > What does everyone else think?
>
> I would love to have something like that, but maybe it will get a lot
> of developer's time. Maybe there should be a group specialiced in
> gnome-loving or, as projects sometimes have a HACKING file, they should
> have a GNOME-LOVE file...

Ah, that's not a bad idea.

> Also, another good idea is that Gnome lovers should help each other, so
> maybe a gnome-loving special gruop should be fine! :)

I'd suggest that it starts on this list, the traffic here isn't too
large. Create a separate list when, and if the need arises.

/M

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