Re: mentors/mentees check-in

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: "Carl D. Sorensen" <address@hidden>; "Phil Holmes" 
<address@hidden>; "Colin Campbell" <address@hidden>; "James Lowe" 
<address@hidden>; "Janek Warchol" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:18 AM
Subject: mentors/mentees check-in


> It's been a few weeks since we had the last mentors
> "organization".
>
> I must admit that I haven't been a particularly good mentor.
> Notably, I failed #5 "keep track of patches from your contributor"
> and #7 "contact your contributor at least once a week".
> Other mentors, how have you done?  You don't need to answer
> publicly, but take a look at the list here:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/mentors
>
> Now that I'm back in Europe, I'll try to do a better job of this
> if I'm being a mentor in the future.
>
>
> That leads to the next question: all the contributors from the
> mentor-contributor pairs we formed earlier now have git access.
> Now, I don't think that git access needs to be tied with no longer
> having a mentor, but that _would_ be a natural time to end an
> official connection.

Do we have a formal list of mentor-contributor pairs?

> Janek, Phil, and Colin: you've all been around for a while, you
> know the joy and flaws of our development process.
> - do you still want to have a mentor?

I'm assuming you're my mentor.  I'm happy not being formally "looked after" 
but much of the stuff I'm doing will involve your comment since I think 
you're one of the few others in the development team who follows the 
build/scripts stuff.

> - if not, would you be willing to *be* a mentor?
>  (you wouldn't be signing a blank check to deal who whoever I
>  assigned you; there would be plenty of opportunity to consider
>  people, discuss what they're interested in and whether the two
>  of you would work well together, etc)

Theoretically, yes.  In practice, I'm not sure what sort of contributor I 
could help.  I think I know more about the build system than some, but 
90-odd percent of it is still a mystery to me.

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Phil Holmes