Open Stack

Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> writes:

> Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> [...]
>> During the Train series goal discussion in Berlin we talked about having
>> a goal of ensuring that each team had documentation for bringing new
>> contributors onto the team. Offering specific mentoring resources seems
>> to fit nicely with that goal, and doing it in each team's repository in
>> a consistent way would let us build a central page on docs.openstack.org
>> to link to all of the team contributor docs, like we link to the user
>> and installation documentation, without requiring us to find a separate
>> group of people to manage the information across the entire community.
>
> I'm a bit skeptical of that approach.
>
> Proper peer mentoring takes a lot of time, so I expect there will be a 
> limited number of "I'll spend significant time helping you if you help 
> us" offers. I don't envision potential contributors to browse dozens of 
> project-specific "on-boarding doc" to find them. I would rather 
> consolidate those offers on a single page.
>
> So.. either some magic consolidation job that takes input from all of 
> those project-specific repos to build a nice rendered list... Or just a 
> wiki page ?
>
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>

A wiki page would be nicely lightweight, so that approach makes some
sense. Maybe if the only maintenance is to review the page periodically,
we can convince one of the existing mentorship groups or the first
contact SIG to do that.

-- 
Doug