Building mentoring into an os community that welcomes and values new contributors
summary
A concrete program embeds mentoring into issue queues, chat and events: scheduled IRC office hours, orientation and mentor docs, in-person Sprints with a live commit, and contributor task pages linked at bit.ly/integrateDmentoring. It also changes governance (a provisional maintainer role) and trains dozens of mentors for Sprint days. Outcome: measurable growth from ~950 core commit mentions on Drupal 7 to about 3,000 on Drupal 8, more reviewers and documenters, and reproducible on-ramps that actually bring people back.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 10:01Official Drupal Mentoring Event
- 19:11Live Commit
- 25:53Constructive Feedback
- 31:04Contributor Task Documents
- 33:52Provisional Maintainer
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