On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 07:34:25PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Ditto. I realise that fostering community involvement requires that the > people who are intimately familiar with the codebase spend more time > giving constructive review feedback on contributions and mentoring new > contributors. This can be frustrating in terms of short-term progress, > but I strongly believe it's better for the long-term health of the > project.
Over the years riba and I have discussed more than once the extent to which I enjoy mentoring way more than he does, and therefore am much more comfortable investing time even though only a fraction of the people I mentor will end up as full contributors because the perceived cost for me is a lot lower. I put quite a significant amount of thought into trying to find a way to either make mentoring -Ofun for ribasushi too and/or to find a way for others to do the mentoring part around/alongside his work as primary architect. Needless to say, the last few years' commit history for DBIx::Class and the current situation demonstrate quite clearly that the emphasis in the above sentence is on 'trying' and that my efforts in that regard ended in abject failure. -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our CPAN commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
