On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Perhaps we should have a maintainer mentorship program. I try to work with > others to help them become a new maintainer. I was doing that with Daniel > Bristot, and I've done it for Masami Hiramatsu and I'm currently helping > others to become maintainers for the trace and verification tooling. I realize this wasn't the original focus of James' mail, my apologies for continuing on the tangent, but I do think some form of a maintainer/reviewer/developer/etc. mentorship program is a good idea. Like Steven, and surely many others (staging tree?), I've done similar things in the security space, and even in the most informal arrangements I believe it has helped people get up to speed with our somewhat unusual development practices and not-always-documented processes. I would expect the program to be fairly informal, especially at first, with perhaps an hour every week or two where an existing maintainer could work with a mentee off-list to answer questions, explain process, code, or anything else relevant to kernel development/maintenance. Time zones would be a challenge for any interactive discussions, but that's a common problem for community development these days, and finding ways to resolve that would be an important part of the mentorship. -- paul-moore.com
