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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers@gnu.org>
Subject: proposal: guix-mentors@gnu.org list/alias
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:17:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ylkyvrh.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)

Hi,

to help new contributors get their first contribution into Guix I think
it would be good to do this:

1. create a new private mailing list or mailing alias guix-mentors@gnu.org

2. ask for experienced Guix contributors who are committed to helping
new contributors to subscribe to the list

3. update the Contributing section in the manual (and the website) to
suggest Cc-ing guix-mentors@gnu.org for a first contribution.

4. have subscribers to guix-mentors@gnu.org “claim” a contribution
within 48 hours, to avoid dilution of responsibilit.  Every contribution
must be acknowledged.

Mentors would then not merely review the submission but shepherd it,
making necessary modifications and push the adjusted patches as soon as
possible.  The goal is not to do the usual review but to create
quick successes, a great first impression.

I recently contributed my first R package to CRAN, and I received an
automatic response that a human reviewer would get back to me within x
days.  This was a great experience, because I didn’t feel like I dropped
off a package into the void.  Expectations were managed and a process
outlined that set the course for the whole interaction.

Our track record with regard to review is not great, and that harm first
contributors more than anyone else.  Having dedicated mentors who agree
to responding and claiming a contribution within 48 hours addresses this
problem.

I cannot commit to reviewing enough patches that come in on
guix-patches, but I sure can promise to join the guix-mentors list and
take on and shepherd first contributions.

What do you think about this?

-- 
Ricardo


             reply	other threads:[~2022-06-01 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 20:17 Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-06-01 22:07 ` proposal: guix-mentors@gnu.org list/alias zimoun
2022-06-01 22:23   ` Gábor Boskovits
2022-06-02  6:17   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02  7:44     ` zimoun
2022-06-02  7:54       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 10:53       ` jbranso
2022-06-09  9:16         ` Paul Jewell
2022-06-02 14:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 15:36   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02 15:12 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-02 15:27   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02 19:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-02 20:29   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 20:04     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-03 21:09       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-06 15:34     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-03 10:32 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-03 11:13   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 11:21   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-03 11:48     ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-03 11:52       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-03 15:55       ` zimoun
2022-06-22  9:22 ` zimoun
2022-06-22  9:44   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-22 12:29     ` zimoun
2022-06-22 13:26     ` Who’s in for mentoring? Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-22 13:44       ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-22 15:10       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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