Instead of redirecting, I ask the author to ask, so as not to presume to take
something they deem private into the public. Chris Hostetter has a handy URL
for this: http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#private_q
-Grant
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> When mentoring, I also tr
When mentoring, I also try to provide some gentle help on this by answering
any privately sent code questions in public by redirecting to the mailing
list. I also send a gentle nudge pointing out that my answer is on the
mailing list and that they would get a faster answer on average if they
asked
On 27/04/2010 14:05, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
...More or less, here's what I tell them:
1. I won't answer any development questions privately...
2. The stuff I will answer privately has to do with you...
I like this - I did work like t
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> ...More or less, here's what I tell them:
> 1. I won't answer any development questions privately...
> 2. The stuff I will answer privately has to do with you...
I like this - I did work like that when mentoring students, without
spelling
Two cents on a slightly different, but related subject. I interviewed 3
different people this year and as part of that laid out my basic "mentoring"
philosophy and each seemed a bit surprised by it at first (but they quickly get
why), but to me it is a reflection of the Apache Way.
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