Great Initiative, I'm already signed up and I look forward to helping anyone interested.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Sharan-F <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I've created a page on the wiki to try and organise the mentoring. We have > a > list of people who volunteered to be mentors, so if you want to be a > mentor, > then please feel free to add your name ot this list. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Mentors > > I'm very conscious of the fact that we dont want to overload the mentors so > I suggest that we initially focus the mentoring on the framework > re-factoring work. This is a specific area where we know there is a lot of > complicated and difficult code that could be hard to understand. > > My suggestion would be that anyone who has a re-factor task could be paired > up with a mentor to help them with it in case they encounter problems. What > do people think about this idea? > > I've also been looking at different ways in which the mentoring could take > place. We need somewhere that is easy to use, and if one mentor isnt > available, a question could perhaps be managed by someone else. We could > make use of our existing IRC channel, Skype or Hipchat. > > I think our IRC channel is underused which shows that people prefer not to > use it much. Skype is also an option but out of the three I think Hipchat > could be a good to look at. It is the main communication method used by > our > ASF Infra team if you need to talk to anyone urgently and from experience I > know it works really well. We already have a Hipchat OFBiz room setup so > could easily implement something similar to ASF Infra with our mentors or > even create a group where our committers could hangout and quickly contact > each other. > > In the past we talked about having a committers space where they could come > together, get to know each other and collaborate more, but never set > anything up so this could also be an opportunity to do that. I will send > out > some invitations to our committers to join the Hipchat OFBiz room so you > can > take a look around and see what you think. > > As usual I'm happy to get feedback on any of the points raised. > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSSION-Setting-Up-Mentoring-tp4682877.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
