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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:40:40 +0200
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To: David Coallier <davidc@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [IDEA/PRE-RFC] PHP Core Mentorship Program
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

As I have nothing against a mentor program, nor something in favor of
one, I think it should be done right from the 1st day. And to be in
right it has to be open, by all means. Restricted lists, private
discussions, etc. have no place in OSS projects. If you don't have
access to the wiki to document your progress, pls request an account.
If anything is happening or happens, it should happen in the
respective list (doc, web, internals, pecl) and publicly.

My doubts are more (like this thread shows) about the lack of will to
contribute (to wish something is not necessary a will). Mentors does
not or cannot create extra time in contributors days either :). To
guide the contributors through the php project is only a very small
part of the actual work, and could be explain better in our
docs/wiki/sites.

One immediate step could be to create a 'contribute' page,
www.php.net/contribute. This page should explain the various areas one
could contribute (docs, tests, core, pecl, etc.) and how to get in
touch with the responsible developers. Maybe with a link to an issue
in the bug tracker for a given todo, or in a wiki doc (for a verbose
description).

Cheers,

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, David Coallier <davidc@php.net> wrote:
> On 13 June 2011 09:06, Ifthikhan Nazeem <iftecan2000@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like a great idea. I have always wanted to contribute but did not
>> find a structured way to incrementally build my knowledge of the internals.
>> This might be a great way to attract new devs.
>>
>
> Hey everyone, thanks for the interest in participating as mentees.
> Just to give you an update, right now I'm trying to compile a list of
> volunteer-mentors. Once this has been done, we'll start compiling
> user-groups mentees and mentees in general.
>
> Thanks for your interest :)
>
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