As a side note, I'm not against the general principle of funding some mentorship or other contribution-related activity. I'm just unsure that this would be money well spent.
Regards
Antoine.
Le 02/11/2018 à 14:37, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
Le 02/11/2018 à 14:19, Tal Einat a écrit :
I would also like to work towards these goals. I have recently invested more time on the core-mentorship mailing list and Zulip stream, as well as doing my best to mentor two promising developers. However, my free time is becoming increasingly limited again, and I am learning that effectively mentoring a developer requires being able to spend a good amount of time nearly daily on such mentoring.
I'd *really* like to know why that is the case. Most existing core developers didn't need "a good amount of time" to be spent "nearly daily" on their mentoring to get them up to speed. Instead they progressed slowly on the contribution curve, with due feedback from senior core developers, but without requiring extended attention.
Contributing to a large mature project like CPython requires dedication and significant prior experience. If someone needs a large amount of hand-holding then that's a bad sign IMO. There are much simpler and more approachable projects out there if they'd like to learn contributing to open source software.
I'd also like to know what the current outcomes of the "Core Mentorship" program are. How many core developers or seasoned contributors did we get from it? The core-mentorship mailing-list has been existing since 2011, so we should have ample experience by now.
Regards
Antoine.
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