Non-MOTU as MOTU Mentors and bad advice

[Nicolas Valcárcel]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 22:39 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> This is a stunningly bad idea and should stop.  I just finished trying
> to help 
> a novice mentee who was trying to upgrade his system to Jaunty because
> his 
> mentor told him too.  

No, that's not, i completely disgree with that. Most of the MOTU's have
already strong technical skills and they can mentor someone for his MOTU
journey, but if you take a closer look to the programme it has been
splited in 2 "stages", the first one the junior mentor program, which is
basically for starters who wish to became UUC and the senior program
which is for people wanting to became a MOTU. 

With that schema we can say that for new starters what is most needed is
an overview of the tools we use (ubuntu-dev-scripts, pbuilder,
launchpad, ubuntuwire, etc...) more than a hard technical guide, that's
why the senior program is for, and for that program mentors need to be
experienced MOTU's.

I also agree that upgrading to jaunty was to much, so i will be really
grateful if you send more information to the us (the mentoring
receptions team) to work on that issues and fix stuff for the future
instead of opening a big conversation on the public lists, as in
security is better to talk with the people that can fix the issues
before they are public.

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Nicolas Valcárcel
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Canonical OEM Services
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