Re: contributors / mentors

[Benkő Pál]

> A year ago, I added a section to the CG about having mentors for contributors:
>  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/mentors
>
> Sadly, it didn't take off -- I took on two doc contributors (just like
> the Grand Documentation Project, albeit on a small scale), but there
> were no volunteers on the "programming" side of things (other than
> Carl, who did all new Frogs).
>
> Could we give this another go?  I'm particularly looking at the newest
> "generation" of developers -- James, Mike, Keith, Pal, Janek, etc.
> Other than James, you guys didn't have a dedicated mentor... but
> wouldn't it have been nice?  Somebody who could guide you through our
> sometimes labyrinthine development process, somebody to commiserate
> with about the lack of reviews and who would go raise a fuss on your
> behalf, somebody to glance over a patch privately and hopefully catch
> any embarrassing mistakes before you sent it to lilypond-devel?
>
> If you think that a mentor would have helped *you*, then please
> consider volunteering to be a mentor to others.  I sure could have
> used a mentor when I began doc work 8 years ago, and certainly could
> have used one when I began doing build system stuff two years ago!
> I'm not asking for a lifelong bond here; most new contributors will
> only need a mentor for the first two or three months.

as a start I'd take Graham Breed's microtonal thingy:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-02/msg00567.html

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