Re: selecting Debian mentors for the mentor summit

[Daniel Pocock]

On 07/08/18 21:40, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I agree with the points presented to be part of the selection algorithm
> (maybe not in the order that you listed) but I would add something to
> measure the candidate's contributions to Debian Project, since the
> selected mentors will represent the project there.
> 

Are you suggesting this for both candidates or maybe just an aim to have
one candidate who is an established contributor or DD and the other
candidate is arbitrary?

>From a GSoC perspective, I feel that attracting good students and
mentoring them well is a big contribution to Debian even if the mentor
doesn't do a lot of other things.

Like contributions to Debian, mentoring quality is actually hard to
quantify though and as an admin, I wouldn't feel comfortable trying to
rate somebody else on either contributions to Debian or mentoring skill.
 Evaluating whether somebody attended the summit last year is easy though.

Regards,

Daniel