Re: proposal: guix-mentors@gnu.org list/alias

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hey!
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> I’d still want to have the patches hit guix-patches and the changes made
>> by a mentor detailed there.  guix-mentors is meant primarily as a
>> coordination space for mentors — it’s how new contributors get a
>> personal mentor for the journey from raw contribution to merge.
>
> So contributors themselves do not need to know about guix-mentors,
> right?  (My initial understanding was that they’d explicitly email
> guix-mentors in addition to guix-patches.)

Your initial understanding is correct.

If we can automate the involvement of guix-mentors somehow that would be
nice, of course, but the idea as presented involves new contributors
explicitly CC-ing guix-mentors.

-- 
Ricardo