I like Sharan's proposal and I am willing to help. Even if most question can and should be posted to the dev list (so that others can benefit from the communication exchange) by experience I have learned that sometimes new contributors/committers are worried to ask questions in the public... having a direct way to communicate with a senior committer (either by mail, chat or phone) may help in these cases.
Jacopo On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Sharan-F <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > One of the things that came up in the Committers Survey was related to > mentoring. I asked the question whether it would be a good idea if newer > Committers were mentored by a more experienced one and 63% of the > Committers surveyed agreed it would be. > > I think that this could be something that could be worth exploring as we > have Committers with a lot of experience and knowledge that could be good > mentors to others. Mentoring could be something as simple as being > available > to answer questions or to give advice about how to approach something, but > the main thing is that there is someone to ask informally. > > For example, I'm sure that Jacques has probably lost count of the amount of > times I approached him offline for help with all kinds of things :-), and > every response has really helped. > > What do people think? (And more importantly is anyone willing to be a > mentor?) > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSSION-Mentoring-to-Share-Knowledge-and-Improve-Code-tp4682594.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
