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=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ===
=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ===


Distribute the workload amongst the remaining mentors. The mailing list is active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to a backup mentor. Worse comes to worst, the project admin can become a mentor for the student until another backup mentor is found.
Distribute the workload amongst the remaining mentors. The mailing list is active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to a backup mentor. In the worst case, the project admin can become a mentor for the student until another backup mentor is found.


This should be infrequent and we hope to prevent this to begin with by selecting mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free projects.
This should be infrequent and we hope to prevent this to begin with by selecting mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free projects.
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