From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 18:29:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA28603 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:29:13 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA28589 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:28:55 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id CAA14556; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 02:27:52 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504260127.CAA14556@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: The Mentors' Club (was Re: Gating hackers ... ) To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 02:27:52 +0100 (BST) Cc: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504252229.AA04514@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Apr 25, 95 05:29:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1047 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Boyd Faulkner who said > > I'm game, but I have one concern. It might be wise to match up people based > on hardware. Sending me a question about mitsumi cd rom drives is not > going to get an informed answer. I realize that a forms based approach > is a pain in the ass but it would make better matching easier to automate. > > If not, the ability to route newbies to the proper pool after being > automatically assigned would be OK. I just don't want some poor clod to > bounce around until someone (and remember, we are talking the lurker here) > with the proper experience and hardware gets it. We could have a re-queue list so if a mentor gets asigned a problem they can't handle they can bounce it re-queue and it'll get unassigned from them and re-assigned to a new mentor. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.