When mentoring, I also try to provide some gentle help on this by answering any privately sent code questions in public by redirecting to the mailing list. I also send a gentle nudge pointing out that my answer is on the mailing list and that they would get a faster answer on average if they asked there in the first place.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org > wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > wrote: > > ...More or less, here's what I tell them: > > 1. I won't answer any development questions privately... > > 2. The stuff I will answer privately has to do with you... > > I like this - I did work like that when mentoring students, without > spelling it out as clearly as you did. Way to go. >
