Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> writes: > I don't know what level of Git development knowledge and what amount of time > is necessary but I would be available as junior co-mentor :-)
AFAICT, you don't have much experience with Git's codebase itself (if I don't count git-p4 as "Git itself"), but you've already been involved in typical reviewing cycles (just the discussions on Travis-CI were a good example), and that is something at least as important as knowing the codebase well. It's up to you to decide whether you feel experienced enough, but I think you are welcome as a co-mentor! As a mentor, to me, the most important things are: * Give advice on how to interact with the Git community. Students can be shy, and then repeating "you should post more to the mailing-list" can be useful. They sometimes make mistakes, and explaining off-list "there's nothing wrong with what you did, but the custom here is to ..." can help. * Give advice on how to get useful code merged. My usual advice is: "don't be too ambitious", which translates to "git this part done, reviewed and possibly merged, you'll work on the bells and whistles later". * Avoid overloading the list with reviews. Getting your own GSoC tee-shirt and letting the list do the work is unfair ;-). Off-list reviews are good to eliminate straightforwards issues, and then mentors should actively participate to the on-list review. That is probably what takes most time. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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
