Re: Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:26, Emmet Hikory wrote: Charliej wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:39 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: I will confess that I don't pay as much attention to the Mentors program as I probably should. I had no idea we were allowing people who weren't MOTU to act

Re: Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:14:49 -0600 Charliej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:39 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: I will confess that I don't pay as much attention to the Mentors program as I probably should. I had no idea we were allowing people who weren't MOTU to act

Re: Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-11 Thread Emmet Hikory
Charliej wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:39 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: I will confess that I don't pay as much attention to the Mentors program as I probably should. I had no idea we were allowing people who weren't MOTU to act formally as mentors. It is my understanding that UUC's

Re: Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 09:13, Nicolas Valcárcel wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:39 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: This is a stunningly bad idea and should stop. I just finished trying to help a novice mentee who was trying to upgrade his system to Jaunty because his mentor told him

Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
I will confess that I don't pay as much attention to the Mentors program as I probably should. I had no idea we were allowing people who weren't MOTU to act formally as mentors. This is a stunningly bad idea and should stop. I just finished trying to help a novice mentee who was trying to

Re: Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

2008-11-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman schrieb: Unless you really know what you are doing, running Jaunty right now is insanity. It's also completely unnecessary to learn and do packaging work for Jaunty. For using the development release safely, please take a look