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Nixpkgs committer proposal: Mentor assignments
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Description
This is just a thought for @Mic92 @jtojnar @NickCao's delegation of Nixpkgs commit access:
It would be really good to assign a mentor to every new committer, who they can ask for any help with committing, or escalate issues to they don't feel qualified to handle.
Here's a concrete idea:
- Create an issue pinging all Nixpkgs committers, asking them whether they'd like to be a mentor or would like to get mentored on commit access.
- Assuming there's enough mentors, assign at most a couple mentees to a single mentor.
- Assign every new committer to a mentor the same way.
- Figure out some process for graduating from a mentee to a mentor, perhaps at the recommendation of the mentor.
How does that sound?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked delegation issue (#50) and the discussion on this issue. Identify whether the proposed mentor, mentee, assignment, and graduation steps have an agreed direction; done would be an accepted mentoring process rather than a code change.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100