Mentors.backup

BugSquad Mentorship Program

How To Request a Mentor

NOTE this page is work-in-progress. Please bear with us while we iron out the programme details.

If you're new to the BugSquad and want to request a mentor you need to:

  • Sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. (Requirement)

  • fill in, on your Launchpad entry, at least your IRC Id, your Wiki page URL, and your time zone
  • Set up your Wiki entry, and include:
    • A brief introduction about yourself;
    • Provide an area of Interest (ie: Sound, Kernel, Desktop, Network, etc). If you do not know what is/will be your area of interest, just state that.
    • Provide your Timezone.
    • Time available to triage (estimate)
  • As a recommendation you might want to read the HowToTriage, your mentor will help you if you have any doubts regarding the processes there.

  • finally, request membership on the bugsquad-mentorship group on Launchpad

How To Become a Mentor

All members of the Ubuntu BugControl team can be mentors; they just need to know how the community operates and the resources more than be knowledgeable in a subject. Their basic responsibilities are:

  • Teach the basics regarding Bug Triage
    • Review the HowToTriage guide with the mentee in case there's any doubt of the process.

  • Introduce the mentee to the general triage WorkFlow and life-cycle of a bug.

  • Encourage the mentee to join the official channels of communication
  • Introduce them to the related Ubuntu activities, Ubuntu Bug Days, Ubuntu QA and BugSquad Meetings, OpenWeek, etc.

  • Encourage Package or Area of specialisation (ie: Server, Python, Kernel, Desktop, KDE, etc).
  • encourage the "Adopt a Package" programme (to be beefed up).
  • Encourage students to join the Bug Days and help to organize it at least once.
  • Recommend them to help on ISO Testing.

  • Send Monthly updates to the bugsquad-mentorship list about their work with the student.

If you want to become one, please send an email to ubuntu-bugcontrol at lists.launchpad.net with the Subject: I Want to Become a Mentor - <<Your Name>>. And include:

  • Area of specialisation (ie: Desktop, KDE, Python, Kernel, SRU, etc, and preferred #ubuntu-* channel.
  • Launchpad ID.
  • times generally available (please mark in UTC)

The Mentors receiving group will answer you shortly and will add you to the list of available mentors and to the bugsquad-mentorship group on Launchpad

Bugsquad Mentors

Mentors are set up as managers in the bugsquad-mentorship group on Launchpad.

This is the current list of mentors on the BugSquad, please keep it up to date:

Mentor

IRC Nickname

Packages - Area of Speciality

Students

Times Available

PedroVillavicencio

pedro_

Desktop Bugs/GNOME

1100 UTC - 2000 UTC

LeannOgasawara

ogasawara

Kernel Bugs

^_Pepe_^

SteveBeattie

sbeattie

Regression bugs and SRU testing

BrianMurray

bdmurray

writing apport-hooks, update-manager, whatever

1700 - 0100 UTC (9AM - 5PM PT)

C de-Avillez

hggdh

Evolution, coreutils, generic help

cyan-spam

1100 - 0600 UTC

CharlieKravetz

charlie-tca

xfce, gnumeric

16:00 - 23:00 UTC

txwikinger

txwikinger

KDE

Geir Ove Myhr

gomyhr

xserver-xorg-video-intel

currently unavailable

Andrés Mujica

andresmujica

Kernel Bugs, xserver-xorg-video-intel, cheese

Chris Coulson

chrisccoulson

Desktop Bugs/GNOME + tracker

1800 - 0000 UTC, although this can vary

MacoMorgan

maco

sound

desperadopaul

Micah Gersten

micahg

firefox*

0000 - 0600 UTC (6PM - 12AM CT)

Brian Curtis

bcurtiswx

empathy, telepathy*

David Dodd , Eric Partlo

1800 - 0400 UTC (2PM - 11PM ET)

Sense Hofstede

qense

Nautilus, gnome, freedesktop, media playing related

_Narc_, Bruno Girin, Hendrik Lippek, Lesley Harrison

West-European time zones

Greg Grossmeier

greg-g

Gwibber, Tomboy, Tasque, GNOME

Dave Walker

2200 - 0400 UTC (5PM - 11PM ET)

Jonathan Jesse

jjesse

Documentation, Kubuntu Docs, Ubuntu Docs

Daniel T Chen

dtchen

audio (kernelspace & userspace)

MarkusKorn

thekorn

Desktop Bugs/GNOME

by day in European timezones

MarcRandolph

mrand

Mythbuntu/MythTV

jgoss

Michael Rooney

mrooney

gnome-do/awn/pidgin/banshee/firefox/wxbanker, upstreaming bugs

1800 - 0800 UTC (10AM-Midnight PST)

Dimitrios Symeonidis

azimout

evince

Draycen DeCator

ddecator

Firefox

Austin Herman

0300 - 0600 UTC (9PM - 12AM CT)

Mentorship Candidates

The table below lists the current candidates for mentorship. Where information is missing, it is noted as unknown. Please update both the Mentors/Candidates tables when taking on a candidate.

Candidate (LP link)

IRC Nickname

Packages - Area of Speciality

Times Available

Aaron

astechgeek

unknkown

UTC-6

Dananjaya

dananjaya

unknkown

UTC+5.30

Sean Zimmermann

unknown

unknkown

UTC-5

Domenico Nardo

unknown

Internet-related bugs, FFox, TBird, etc

unknown, presumed UTC+2

Barend Ording

unknown

Gnome

unknown, presumed UTC+1

Gary Alexander

unknown

unknown

unknown, presumed UTC+11

Daniel Stone

unknown

Sound, desktop recording

unknown, presumed UTC-6

Robert Schillinger

schilli

no particular specialty

UTC-6 late nights

Dan Buhrman

dvlchd3

unknown

UTC-5 (weekdays: midnight-10AM - weekend: daytime)

trinikrono

trinikrono

unknown

UTC-4

BugSquad/Mentors.backup (last edited 2012-12-21 09:47:06 by javier-lopez)