On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 12:24 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > I'm starting to ramp up on the mentoring programme ready for a > (potential) influx of students in September. > > We need to get potential mentors to indicate their issues on their > projects issue trackers. One thing I want to make clear to both mentors > and mentees is that we are not asking people to teach here, only guide. > > I've added the following to the intro of the mentoring page [1] (will > not sync for a short while, so you might want [2]) > > "The mentoring programme is not here to teach you to write documentation > or code. It is here to help you understand how to make a valuable > contribution to an Apache project. You can expect to be guided through > our contribution processes. You can also expect to get technical support > with respect to your chosen project. You cannot expect your mentor to be > a "teacher", they will provide enough information for you to progress > within the project. You need to bring the confidence to take their > guidance and discover the detail for yourself." > > I've also added the following to the "who can be a mentee" section: > > "You do not need to be a self starter, your mentor will not take
"do not"? I'd say you do need to be a self starter. Upayavira > responsibility for "managing" your work here. Everyone who contributes > to an Apache project does so on a voluntary basis, there are no managers > here - only helpful peers." > > Please feel free to make any clarifications you can. > > Ross > > [1] http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/MentoringProgramme >
