Open Stack

On 07/23/2014 01:02 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night:
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547
>>
>> Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too'
>>
>> It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a community
>> offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack mentoring' shows
>> mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for women... but no mention
>> of mentors as a way for everyone to get involved)?
>>
>> Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article itself it
>> seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way to get involved.
>>
>> Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know there
>> is training work that has been worked on, but that's not exactly the same).
>>
>> Thoughts, comments...?
>>
> I'll let Stefano answer further, but yes, we've discussed a centralized
> mentoring program for a year or so. I'm not sure we have enough mentors
> available, there are certainly plenty of people seeking and needing
> mentoring. So he can elaborate more on our current thinking of how we'd
> overcome the imbalance and get more centralized coordination in this area.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
Mozilla also has "mentored bugs" system which provide a mentor who
commits to helping a newbie get a single bug fixed. It would be nice to
have that in OpenStack. It would also be a great way for people to get
their feet wet in mentoring or who don't want to commit themselves too
much.