Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Take what I'm about to say with a pinch of salt, because I've never mentored. > > Mentors often don't provide much technical assistance: students should > just post to the list with queries, or ask on #git-devel. Mentors > serve a different purpose; their primary responsibility, in my > opinion, is to teach the student a sustainable productive workflow.
I basically agree. One of the most important jobs of mentors is to make sure there are people available to provide prompt technical assistance, hopefully before the project begins. [...] > - using gdb efficiently to quickly understand parts? Oh, dear. I hope not. ;-) Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
