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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

  • BugSquad and QA Mailing list

  • IRC Channel: #ubuntu-bugs

• 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).

  • See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage

• 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.

• 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:

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.