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On 12 Apr 2017, at 18:54, Michał Jastrzębski wrote:

> I was also thinking of having "cores just for single thing" in Kolla,
> but I think that won't really work as most of our code is variation of
> other parts with very little unique things to this, it's tuning up
> details that takes most of our work (aside of already split
> kolla-ansible and kolla-kubernetes).
>
> That being said I fully support any effort to train new core team
> members. In fact, I'd like to explore few ideas for that and maybe ask
> for opinions of broader community:
>
> 1. Mentorship program
> Every person who wants to be a core but doesn't feel confident about
> his/hers ability can ask core team for mentor. This mentor-mantee
> relationship will work in a way that mantee can ask mentor to
> re-review his/hers review (+2 of my +1 or -1 with explanation what did
> I miss), technical questions and things like that. I would be happy to
> act as first point of contact to pair mantees with mentors (once we
> establish some mechanism for that).
>
> 2. +1 matters
> One thing that I see happening is misconception that +1 doesn't
> matter. It does, but maybe we need to do something to break that
> impression. Frankly I don't have good ideas for that, any experiences
> anyone?
>
> I think we, as broader OpenStack community could make this full
> fledged cross project discussion and trade experiences (that's why I
> broaden subject tags a little:)).


Thanks for broadening the subject tags. I hadn't seen this thread yet.

While I don't have "answers" for you questions (of course I have ideas and opinions though), the mentorship idea and starting to break the "+1 doesn't matter" meme are both great! Thank you for bring up the topic.


--John



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