As a side note, I'm not against the general principle of funding some mentorship or other contribution-related activity. I'm just unsure that this would be money well spent.
Regards Antoine. Le 02/11/2018 à 14:37, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > Le 02/11/2018 à 14:19, Tal Einat a écrit : >> >> I would also like to work towards these goals. I have recently invested >> more time on the core-mentorship mailing list and Zulip stream, as well >> as doing my best to mentor two promising developers. However, my free >> time is becoming increasingly limited again, and I am learning that >> effectively mentoring a developer requires being able to spend a good >> amount of time nearly daily on such mentoring. > > I'd *really* like to know why that is the case. Most existing core > developers didn't need "a good amount of time" to be spent "nearly > daily" on their mentoring to get them up to speed. Instead they > progressed slowly on the contribution curve, with due feedback from > senior core developers, but without requiring extended attention. > > Contributing to a large mature project like CPython requires dedication > and significant prior experience. If someone needs a large amount of > hand-holding then that's a bad sign IMO. There are much simpler and > more approachable projects out there if they'd like to learn > contributing to open source software. > > I'd also like to know what the current outcomes of the "Core Mentorship" > program are. How many core developers or seasoned contributors did we > get from it? The core-mentorship mailing-list has been existing since > 2011, so we should have ample experience by now. > > Regards > > Antoine. > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
