[Sugar-devel] Where shall I start contributing?

[Tony Anderson]

So let's discourage his help. I would be happy to work with him on 
coming up with a reasonable protocol.

Tony

On Saturday, 12 May, 2018 11:52 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 07:23:21AM +0530, Jaskirat Singh wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> One of the GSOC aspirant is working on the "Beginner guide for new comers"
>> along with the mentors. So i think this will soon help us in providing an
>> appropriate path to the new contributors.
> Thanks.  You are talking about Pratul Kumar,
> https://medium.com/@pratulkumar/gsoc-introduction-to-the-community-ed47e04e3051
>
> Pratul should become an activity maintainer before being trusted to guide
> beginner developers to that same goal.
>
> Back on 14th February, when Pratul first mentioned their interest in
> the project, I mentioned several risks and gave links to our existing
> beginner guides written by Rahul, pipix51, Walter, and I.  These
> guides continue to be updated.
>
> Perhaps the mentors might help?  I don't think so.  Mentors that
> Pratul met with are Jaskirat Singh, Divyanshu Rawat, Abdulazeez
> Abdulazeez and Shivang Shekhar.  None of these are an activity
> maintainer.
>
> Perhaps the other mentors might help?  I don't think so.  Wiki page
> also mentions Hrishi Patel, Rishabh Thaney and Samson Goddy.  None of
> these are an activity maintainer, though Hrishi has had a go at making
> changes to Sugar Toolkit documentation.
>
> What will Pratul do about the problem of our collective failure to
> maintain Sugar activities?  There's a challenge.  ;-)
>