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From: "Donnie Berkholz" <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: "Donnie Berkholz" <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Gentoo project list" <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-project] Improving our people
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:53:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1816200222-1232218654-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1608419775-@bxe165.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> (raw)

If we want Gentoo to thrive, we need to focus on getting the best people. Here's some brainstorming I'm doing (as I wait in the store for my wife to try on clothes) on how to better develop our most important resource: our contributors. Does it make sense? Any thoughts?

Track who's mentored people
 How many people?
 How good are the mentees?
  Commits, etc
 How long do the mentees stay in Gentoo?
 Do they become mentors or leaders?
 How long does mentorship continue?

Reward mentors publicly
 Recognition
  GMN - graphs, individual names
  Mention in recruitment email

Goals
 Mentoring is important
 Get better new devs
 Improve existing devs by pairing w senior mentors (code review, designing/proposing major changes, etc)
 Improve mentoring
  Best mentors can train how to do it



             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-17 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-17 18:53 Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2009-01-18  1:10 ` [gentoo-project] Improving our people Wulf C. Krueger
2009-01-18 20:55 ` Petteri Räty
2009-01-20 23:47 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-01-21  4:30   ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-01-21  4:32     ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-01-21  7:04       ` Douglas Anderson
2009-01-21 16:55         ` Donnie Berkholz

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