Obviously, lots of informational activity occurs off the mailing list. A great example is answering questions on stack overflow. And ApacheCon talks which actually led to certain decisions being made should definitely be echoed back to the mailing list.
But apart from all of that GitHub issues should definitely be mirrored back to the mailing list. There's no way to justify that an issue tracker is not echoed back. On Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 14:05 Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > By that argument there’s no point speaking at ApacheCon. Because it > doesn’t happen on a mailing list. > > So let’s not be so strict. > > Clearly there are many ways that a mentor can assist. Some of them are not > measurable (such as having a phone call). But I think any measurable > activity should count. > > Julian > > > > On Sep 17, 2018, at 8:55 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 17 September 2018 at 12:10, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> Maybe I am missing something here, but how would GitHub contributions > contribute to mentoring? > >> > >> Well I thought it wouldn't which is why I didn’t include it, but as > some projects use GitHub issues a lot, so some stuff tends to get discussed > there rather than on the dev list. > > > > "If it did not happen on a mailing list then it did not happen" > > If the GitHub issues are not being copied to the mailing lists, then > > again I don't see how that contributes to the mentoring process. > > > >> There’s a few other factors in this case, but I think it’s on it way to > being sorted. I'll bring it to the mentors attention and see what they > think. (Sorry for being obtuse, but this is a public list.) > > > >> Thanks, > >> Justin > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
