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Mentee Guide for Group Mentoring

This doc is a work in progress

Welcome and Summary

Welcome prospective mentee! This is an experimental group mentoring program where individuals will work self-paced in a semi-structured learning environment over the course of three months. Want to get lgtm rights? Be a decision maker in an OWNERS file? This could be a great way to get the knowledge you need, some accountability to do it, and interact with active contributors who may on the same path as you and our experienced Kubernetes developers.

During the three month period, you will work on a path to the next level of membership which will take some work along with peers who have the same goal. This cohort will include mentors who are at least the level that you are targeting with ample experience in the project. These mentors will counsel but not provide answers to the problem or the solution itself. Think of them as true pilots of the sea - navigational experts - only to our codebase. At the end of the three month period, you'll have conversations with the mentors about getting into the OWNERs file.

Familiarize yourself with the community membership requirements docincluding the requirements needed for your specific journey. You’ll receive sponsorship from the mentors and other people you've worked on issues/PRs with upon successful completion of the program.

Expectations

  • You understand the requirements to become $member_role (ex: member->reviewer)
  • Good standing throughout the program and uphold our code of conduct
  • Check-in during a designated day on slack for a "stand-up". Mentors will be there that day, too, and guaranteed feedback.
  • Be helpful to your peers in the cohort
  • Give back and be a mentor in a future cohort
  • Mutual respect from mentors and peers who are in the cohort with you

Member to Reviewer Cohort

Topics that are good for discussion during that time period:

  • Code Reviews the Kubernetes Way (i.e. best practices)
  • How to groom issues for new members/contributors
  • Communicating effectively (on GH and throughout project)
  • Technical documentation
  • Kubernetes Governance 201 (SIG deep dive, proposals)
  • Testing (what should be an e2e test, how to write S, M, L, tests)
  • Kubernetes Governance 101 (keps, subprojects, OWNERS files, steering committee, etc.)
  • Identifying & understanding issue backlog and prioritization
  • Contributing to testing (how to run tests and create new ones)

Suggested Activity

  • Be a tech reviewer for docs
  • Write an E2E test
  • Help out in #pr-reviews

Current Approver Cohort

  • Communicating effectively as a leader (on GH and throughout project)
  • How to write better docs (release notes, etc.)
  • How to propose a new feature (features, design proposals) TODO: add more here

Other Help Resources

  • slack
    • #kubernetes-dev
    • your respective sig or other sigs that could help
    • #meet-our-contributors
    • #pr-reviews
  • mailing lists
  • contributor office hours
    • Kubernetes Community Office Hours
    • #office-hours on slack
  • the docs
    • kubernetes/community is your friend for upstream workflows, processes, and information around contributing
    • This repo includes the community/contributors/devel folder which will be extra helpful that includes docs such as:
    • Code Review Expectations
    • Collaboration on k8s

Thank you to both mentees and mentors for taking on this new, unchartered territory! We will be building documentation around you and appreciate your guidance as a founding member of this program!