[gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

[Petteri Räty]

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Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a 
mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that 
would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use 
this info to forward people to these developers.

Regards,
Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 21:47 Mon 11 Feb     , Petteri Räty wrote:
> Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a 
> mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that 
> would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use this 
> info to forward people to these developers.

This should probably be on the -project list.

Given that, what I think is that people's willingness to mentor may 
depend on the recruit. So you'd need more than a simple on/off bit, 
you'd also need a "maybe" option.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

[Mark Loeser]

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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> said:
> Given that, what I think is that people's willingness to mentor may 
> depend on the recruit. So you'd need more than a simple on/off bit, 
> you'd also need a "maybe" option.

And probably area's of interest should be part of it.  Even though I
have nothing to do with (just taking something random here) openmotif,
if someone wanted to come on board and maintain that, I'd certainly be
interested in mentoring them (same with anything that is lacking a
maintainer right now).

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Adding available as a mentor bit to LDAP

[Thomas Anderson]

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On Monday 11 February 2008 14:47:35 Petteri Räty wrote:
> Often we have someone wanting to become a dev and we need a to find a
> mentor for him. What do you think about adding a status bit to LDAP that
> would mark you as available for mentoring? Recruiters could then use
> this info to forward people to these developers.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri

While I certainly agree that such a status bit is useful, there is perhaps 
some more stuff that could be added. To be more exact, it might be useful to 
have, say, a person who is willing to mentor someone interested in general 
ebuilds/media-related stuff/fonts/X11. In this way, it is more obvious who to 
contact other than a list of developers marked as 'available'.

Thanks,
Thomas

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