On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > At least for debian-devel-french@, I don't think that we advertise the > possibility to ask questions there.
Just start a discussion there, get a new wording and then ask listmasters to change it. Probably this update could benefit of having the list description in both English and French. > I'm not sure we need another list for that, given the low traffic (and > spanish looks similar) I meant new lists for other languages that don't have a list yet (when a group of people speaking that language ask for it, of course). > > Mentoring works better when the mentor and the mentee are speaking in their > > natives languages, but ultimately to participate in Debian people need a > > minimal knowledge of written English... > > Sure, but making one's first steps in Debian is also very difficult. So > I think that every possible way to simplify that first step is a good > thing. > > So, if I'm not elected, I will probably: > - see if it's considered OK to direct french contributors to > debian-devel-french@ (I guess it will be OK) > - see if a few french contributors besides me would agree to answer > questions on IRC, and create #-mentors-fr if that's the case > (#-devel-fr is quite active, so it's better not to add more "noise" > there) > - advertise this (blog, packaging tutorial, etc.) > - provide feedback to the project after a few weeks/months, so that > others can possibly make the same move > > This sounds like a rather simple step to make, hence my "low-hanging > fruit" qualifier. I see, it is not that easy. To sustain a mentoring community for a long time, it needs plenty of people around it. In Debian we currently struggle to keep our global community in English going running because the lack of mentors. That's why I exceptical about communities per language taking off. Some people pushed for a similar experiment to the one you describe some years ago in Spanish, they even added a round of talks: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSpanish/Devel/IRCTalks But despite being a small group of people working a lot on it and the Spanish speaking community being big, it didn't last long. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130318130013.ga23...@pryan.ekaia.org