On 07/31/2013 02:05 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 1/08/2013 04:34, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> It seems a little rude to pop in, address them personally, and ask them >> each if they'd devote months of their time towards mentoring me. (Doing >> so can pressure someone into agreeing to something he doesn't want to >> do, or makes him reject you personally which many people find awkward.) > > I definitely understand that. I wonder if it would help if we had a page > where developers could register their interest in being a mentor. > > > I think that'd be a great idea. If each developer could state where their interests/expertise laid and what type of dev they'd be interested in mentoring, that could make the selection process more natural for both prospective devs and established devs.
The problem I have is I don't know what I'd want to work on. I love vim, tmux, and fluxbox, but I believe they already have capable maintainers. I'm learning C and Python, and know PHP, so there's probably a bit I could learn about C and Python. And my competency in PHP may qualify me for some packages. Which ones, I don't know. Overall I just can't think of a reason for Gentoo to take me.
