mentors April 2006

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Short Intro...
by Michael J. Knox 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Just a quick hello. I saw Patrick's call for mentors on the devel list, so I thought I would put my hand up. I am a bit of a "jack of all trades" I spent 3 years with Lycoris, build Desktop/LX until it was bought by Mandriva. Packaging is something I do fairly well, only recently became sponsored for FE contributions. I am OK with languages like C/C++ (have work on network traffic generation libraries and written a FreeBSD kernel driver), php, basic python and what not.. I am also (very ashamed to admit) that I even know Delphi ;) So happy to mentor where ever I can. Thanks! Michael

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Google's Summer of Code (Seeking mentors)
by Patrick W. Barnes 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Have you been waiting for your chance to make a difference as part of the Fedora Mentors program? Now you'll have a real opportunity to shine. The Fedora Project will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year. If you would like to mentor a student as part of this program, please sign up with Google as a mentor for the Fedora Project: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html Once you have signed up, you'll be able to sign in to interact with student applications: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html You may also be invited to join the Summer Administrators 2006 Google Group. This group will be the central contact point for mentors from all organizations. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64(a)n-man.com http://www.n-man.com/ Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --

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Is this the right way to respond? [Fwd: Re: seeking bugtriage help]
by David Eisenstein 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi fellow mentors and mentees, I received this email on Monday, April 11, from Abhishek. This is the first time I have been approached as a mentor. I have merely dipped my toe into the Triage project, so am not very well informed about it, but did my best to answer. Since we're all kind of new to this, I thought I'd ask for a critical review of my response to Abhishek, as well as to let the general mentor community know about his request in case someone else here can respond more fully than I have. Is this response okay? Are there things I missed saying that I should have, or things I said I shouldn't have? Was it too long? Too short? Should I forward his request to the fedora-triage-list or let him be responsible for making contact there, as I suggested below? I appreciate your input. Thanks a bunch! Warm regards, David Eisenstein -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: seeking bugtriage help Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:04:10 -0500 From: David Eisenstein <deisenst(a)gtw.net> To: Abhishek Srivastava <mr_abhi14(a)yahoo.co.in> References: <20060409145003.36636.qmail(a)web8901.mail.in.yahoo.com> Abhishek Srivastava wrote: > sir, > i got your details from www.fedoraproject.org. i would like to have > some help from you so that i can start contributing to fedora.i would > like to participate in bugtriaging. > Please help me to start.i am deliberately keeping this msg short.i > can give further info about me once i know what is needed to be said. > thanks. Hello Abhishek, I apologize for how long it has taken me to respond to your query. The Fedora Triaging (or "Bug Squad") team's primary mission "is to track down and shoot bugs in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ that are related to Fedora and act as a bridge between users and developers," according to their page on the wiki. You can find out more information about triaging bugs for the Fedora project by visiting their web-page <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers>, or visiting the #fedora-triage IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. I understand that Fridays are the triage team's "bug days" on the #fedora-triage channel, but there are usually people there in the channel who can answer your questions most days. (You may have to be patient, though, as many folks on Fedora-related channels may be busy doing other things and may not answer right away. At least that's been my experience there.) There is also a mailing list you can write to, <fedora-triage-list(a)redhat.com> to ask people there how to help out. If you would like, I will be happy to forward your query on to the list, in case there are some folks there who have better answers than I have. (I happen to belong to that list.) Or, you can subscribe yourself to that list by visiting this page: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-triage-list>. I myself work with the Fedora-Legacy group, doing some triaging/discerning/ reporting of security-related bugs in Red Hat's Bugzilla, as well as occasionally building revised packages and doing QA work on packages. The Fedora Legacy Project "provides security and critical bug fix errata packages for select Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core releases after they reach their end-of-life, thus extending their effective lifetime." If it sounds interesting to you, you can find out more about Fedora Legacy at our wiki page: <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy>. If there are any further questions you have or things I can do to be helpful to you as you get acquainted with the Fedora project, please feel free to write to me. If I am online on the freenode IRC network, you are welcome to talk to me there (I usually use the nickname "Questor" or "Questor_" there on IRC). Thank you for writing! Warm regards, David Eisenstein Missouri, U.S.A.

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I need help from someone
by rayhun rashid 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

hi there i am looking for someone who can help me about rpm development and i like to work on network security. regarding rayhun rashid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MENTORS: some feedback, please. :)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

All, I've created a draft of a new mentors page. A little simpler, with contact information more readily available. Please take a look and let me know what you think: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MentorsVersionTwo I also introduce here the notion of "rave reviews". Yes, I realize that any "rating system" can be gamed, but I think it's important that people who give their time as mentors have the opportunity to be recognized. In any event, whatever we decide we'd like the Mentors pages to look like, I think it's time to: 1. Verify that everyone on the mentors page still wants to be a mentor, so that we have a solid base we can count on. 2. Start advertising the presence of the mentors page heavily. Mairin put together a great mockup for something we could put in the nav bar; I'd like to implement that, or something similar. 3. Start recruiting heavily for new mentors, with a focus on expanding the areas of expertise for mentoring. More translation/localization mentors, more international members, more free Java mentors, more mentors generally. Just some ideas. I'd love to move forward with them, but only if you all think the changes are useful. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------

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