[python-committers] Suggestion: A PSF grant for running a "Core Dev Mentorship Program"

[Antoine Pitrou]

As a side note, I'm not against the general principle of funding some
mentorship or other contribution-related activity.  I'm just unsure that
this would be money well spent.

Regards

Antoine.


Le 02/11/2018 à 14:37, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
> 
> Le 02/11/2018 à 14:19, Tal Einat a écrit :
>>
>> I would also like to work towards these goals. I have recently invested
>> more time on the core-mentorship mailing list and Zulip stream, as well
>> as doing my best to mentor two promising developers. However, my free
>> time is becoming increasingly limited again, and I am learning that
>> effectively mentoring a developer requires being able to spend a good
>> amount of time nearly daily on such mentoring.
> 
> I'd *really* like to know why that is the case.  Most existing core
> developers didn't need "a good amount of time" to be spent "nearly
> daily" on their mentoring to get them up to speed.  Instead they
> progressed slowly on the contribution curve, with due feedback from
> senior core developers, but without requiring extended attention.
> 
> Contributing to a large mature project like CPython requires dedication
> and significant prior experience.  If someone needs a large amount of
> hand-holding then that's a bad sign IMO.  There are much simpler and
> more approachable projects out there if they'd like to learn
> contributing to open source software.
> 
> I'd also like to know what the current outcomes of the "Core Mentorship"
> program are.  How many core developers or seasoned contributors did we
> get from it?  The core-mentorship mailing-list has been existing since
> 2011, so we should have ample experience by now.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
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