Problem/Motivation

Using some work from #2465617: [policy, no patch] Documenting Drupal Core Mentoring lead responsibilities

we can make maintainers more accurate and useful.

Proposed resolution

Remaining tasks

  • get people mentioned in the patch to comment
  • review
  • dries sign-off

User interface changes

NA

API changes

NA

Data model changes

NA

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#14 update_mentoring-2522716-14.patch1.43 KBdavidhernandez
#13 update_mentoring-2522716-13.patch1.45 KBdavidhernandez
#1 mentor-maintainers.patch1.42 KBYesCT
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YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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mentor-maintainers.patch1.42 KB

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YesCT’s picture

YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented

some people might want more details about what mentoring coordinators do, check out this great docs page we added recently
https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring/mentoring-coordinator

YesCT’s picture

YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented

I know all the work these coordinators do beyond "just" mentoring, but for those that dont see it as much as I do... here you go.

alina

  • help with drupalcon sprint organization,
  • drupalcon mentor communications,
  • attends many sprints and events to mentor,
  • core mentoring repo, mailchimp,
  • drupalcon mentor spreadsheets,
  • drupalcon mentor signup,
  • drupalcon sprint webpages,
  • does a lot of work in between meetings,
  • attends the monthly meta mentoring meeting,
  • documents mentoring processes
  • improves mentoring processes

chris

  • IRC mentoring,
  • in-person mentoring at camps,
  • in-person mentoring at cons,
  • automation tools (IFTTT) to help with mentoring,
  • fixes some things with d.o to improve contributions process (tag sort autocomplete),
  • attends the monthly meta mentoring meeting

val

  • IRC mentoring,
  • in-person mentoring camps,
  • in-person mentoring at cons,
  • mentoring-related drupal.org issues,
  • doodles,
  • tweets drupalmentoring,
  • testbot admin,
  • IRC channel admin,
  • attends the monthly meta mentoring meeting

heddn

  • IRC mentoring,
  • in-person mentoring at camps,
  • in-person mentoring at sprints,
  • spanish community mentor lead,
  • mentoring at cons,
  • IRC channel admin,
  • attends the monthly meta mentoring meeting
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alimac CreditAttribution: alimac commented

I am honored. The list of tasks in #3 describes what I have been doing in the past year. My goal is always to improve the things that can be improved and automate the things that can be automated.

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heddn
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CreditAttribution: heddn at MTech, LLC commented

To echo alimac, I'm equally honored. For a while now, I've thought that the best way to get D8 was to duplicate myself and get work done through others. It is exciting to see folks that I have mentored over the years become very active participants in seeing D8 get out the door. The only thing I'd add to the list in #3 is that I'm also involved in mentoring at camps and sprints.

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A hearty +1 to all the suggested inclusions!

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The core mentoring coordinator responsibilities, are:

  1. Organizing IRC mentoring office hours.
  2. Organizing mentoring at DrupalCons.
  3. Communicating the principles of mentoring.
  4. Responding to inquiries about mentoring to local organizers.
  5. Being available to other mentors.

Of these, I do 1, 3, and 5. I could do 4, and I have mentored at non-Drupal OSS events. But 2, organizing events, is not an area of strength for me. I know myself enough by now to be sure about that. Avoid disappointing surprises by never having me plan an event.

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@cilefen deal! maintaining IRC mentoring is something I dont do very much anymore and it is great to have others to take on that.

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The honor would be mine, too. From Chris's list, I would like to participate more in 2 (organizing mentoring on DrupalCons). During the last year, I've helped to organize sprints in 2 camps (Wroclaw and Sofia).

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cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work 
+++ b/core/MAINTAINERS.txt
@@ -511,13 +511,23 @@ Web services
+Drupal Core mentoring coordinators do mentoring strategy, mentor recruitment,
+and mentor-mentoring.

This sentence doesn't make much sense.

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CreditAttribution: star-szr as a volunteer commented 
+++ b/core/MAINTAINERS.txt
@@ -511,13 +511,23 @@ Web services
+process, to make it easier for new contributors to get involved. They organize
+communications and logistics. And, they actively participate as a mentor.

I think the comma after "process" is not needed, and it should probably be "processes" to match the plurality of tools and documentation.

Also I would combine the last two sentences:

"They organize communications and logistics and they actively participate as mentors."

But besides that everyone has commented so once we get wording ironed out this is RTBC I'd say.

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cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commented

Try: "Drupal Core mentoring coordinators strategize, recruit mentors, and mentor the mentors." or similar.

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Status: Needs work » Needs review
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update_mentoring-2522716-13.patch1.45 KB

Reworded some things, and put the names in alpha order. I didn't bother with an interdiff since almost every line is different.

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CreditAttribution: davidhernandez as a volunteer commented
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update_mentoring-2522716-14.patch1.43 KB

Changed some wording again. Cilefen and I were discussing this in person. We had an actual author agree that the word strategize in that sentence is awkward and superfluous.

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

I'm ok with the new wording, and each of the people have chimed in.

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Assigned: Unassigned » Dries

Dries takes care of maintainers.txt

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Assigned: Dries » Unassigned
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed to 8.x! Thank you!

  • Dries committed 8d34a79 on 8.0.x 
    git commit -m 'Issue #2522716 by davidhernandez, YesCT: Update mentoring...
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cilefen CreditAttribution: cilefen commented

@Dries Thank you too. We'll keep on-boarding more developers!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.