From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79C51F461 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2019 06:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406492AbfIGGkA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Sep 2019 02:40:00 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:42802 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1727670AbfIGGkA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Sep 2019 02:40:00 -0400 Received: (qmail 28393 invoked by uid 109); 7 Sep 2019 06:39:59 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 06:39:59 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 9870 invoked by uid 111); 7 Sep 2019 06:41:46 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 07 Sep 2019 02:41:46 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 02:39:59 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Carlo Arenas Cc: Emily Shaffer , git@vger.kernel.org, Olga Telezhnaya , Christian Couder , Elijah Newren , Thomas Gummerer , Matheus Tavares Bernardino Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019? Message-ID: <20190907063958.GB28860@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20190827051756.GA12795@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20190904194114.GA31398@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20190905193959.GA17913@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:55:46AM -0700, Carlo Arenas wrote: > I'm interested to mentor/help too, but I am definitely not a (some > people would even argue against "reliable") contributor but I might be > better than nothing and could pass my "lessons learned" along, so > hopefully next contributors are less of a pain to deal with than I am I just wrote a response to Emily, but I think a lot of it applies to you, as well. In particular, I think both of you are a bit newer to the project than most of the other people who have mentored in the past. In some ways that may be a good thing, as it likely makes it easier to see things from the intern's perspective. :) But it may also introduce some complications if you're working in an area of the code you're not familiar with. Co-mentoring may help with that. -Peff