>From a knowledge sharing perspective, I don't recommend our mentor to use IM to answer the one to one questions. As the Q & A could be common to others. It's better to use the public channel to start the discussion. I know there could be challenges for a newbie to go through the environment setup process without any help, it's necessary that we provide help for the newbie. But I highly recommend we keep polish the start up documentation to address the common questions.
Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:10 PM Jialin Qiao <qj...@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote: > > Hi, > > Good proposal Jesse! > > The goal of this activity is to strengthen the contact between mentors and > newcomers and introduce more contributors to the community. > What Justin cares for maybe the "vote" process. I think all committer/PMC and > enthusiastic contributors could be a mentor without vote. > > Becoming a mentor may need to share the personal contact > information(email/wechat/slack/twitter, etc), students may not be used to ask > questions in the public mail list. > So I think self-recommendation is ok :) > > Thanks, > -- > Jialin Qiao > School of Software, Tsinghua University > > 乔嘉林 > 清华大学 软件学院 > > > -----原始邮件----- > > 发件人: "Xiangdong Huang" <saint...@gmail.com> > > 发送时间: 2020-12-24 10:19:44 (星期四) > > 收件人: dev <dev@iotdb.apache.org> > > 抄送: > > 主题: Re: [Discussion] Suggestion of initiating the “Community Mentors” > Project > > > > Hi Justin, > > > > The cause of this idea is Jialin and I had some talks in several > > Universities in China last month, and there were tens of undergraduate > > students > > showed the interests in joining the community and the project. We are > > thinking how to let them really join the community, rather than just > saying > > "ah, I am interested in it. and that's all". > > But as they are Sophomore or Junior, they have no experiences about how > to > > contribute to the Open Source and how to develop IoTDB > > (we have to tell them step by step, from how to import IoTDB into their > > IDE to how to debug and submit PR). > > > > In the beginning, they are not familiar with Apache Way (even includes > > using mailing list), > > and at this time, someone who can give him/her a detailed guide will let > > him/her know how to ask for help on the mailing list and the community. > > > > Best, > > ----------------------------------- > > Xiangdong Huang > > School of Software, Tsinghua University > > > > 黄向东 > > 清华大学 软件学院 > > > > > > Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> 于2020年12月24日周四 上午5:43写道： > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I be curious to know why this needs to be formalised like this. > People can > > > help out as needed / when required, having a role like this may > actually > > > stop others (who are not recognised as mentors) from helping. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Justin > </jus...@classsoftware.com></dev@iotdb.apache.org></saint...@gmail.com>
