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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:41:59 +0100
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: David Coallier <davidc@php.net>, Ifthikhan Nazeem <iftecan2000@gmail.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [IDEA/PRE-RFC] PHP Core Mentorship Program
From: petercowburn@gmail.com (Peter Cowburn)

On 13 June 2011 13:40, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Starting points, http://php.net/get-involved.php and
https://wiki.php.net/ideas/getinvolved

>
> 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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