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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 | Distribute the workload among the remaining mentors. The mailing list is | ||
active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to | 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 | a backup mentor. In the worst case, the project admin can become a mentor for | ||
the student until another backup mentor is found. | the student until another backup mentor is found. | ||
This should be infrequent and we hope to prevent | This situation should be infrequent and we hope to prevent it by selecting | ||
mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free projects. We are also | mentors with proven involvement in Octave or other free software projects. We are also | ||
pairing new mentors with older ones. | pairing new mentors with older ones. | ||