[python-committers] Mentoring Julien Palard (core), Cheryl Sabella (bug) and Sanyam Khurana (bug)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sun Dec 10 18:28:37 EST 2017


On Dec 9, 2017, at 20:41, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 - "Who am I to have this power?" is a pretty common reaction to
> community promotions, so erring on the side of "I trust your
> judgement, so you should trust your judgement" is a good way to go.
> 
> But at the same time, we should make it clear that "Help me better
> calibrate my judgement" is an entirely appropriate use case for the
> core-mentorship list (and we keep those archives closed so they're not
> available to search engines).

Very well said, Nick.  It’s useful to remind new contributors that very few things are irreversible, and that there are lots of outlets for asking questions.

-Barry

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