From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T08:26:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

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On 2/15/07, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/14/07, Jim Clark <diegoslice@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As far as the adoptee taking undue advantage of the adopter's time and
> > willingness to help, I've been on teams where we use Social Contracts to
> > outline expectations and responsibilities from the start.
>
> I hate the idea of a "social contract."
>
> The obvious solution is mentor refactoring:
>
> red: newbie asks question
> green: mentor answers question
> refactor: each person asks if they like the other guy, find someone
> else if they don't
>
> Simple, low stress, low obligation, no hard feelings
>
> The whole point of this is to make it easy and comfortable to learn
> the basics of Ruby.  Contracts?  Yuck!
>
> Pat
>
> p.s. I didn't read the contract, so I have no clue what it looks like.
> But I can just about guarantee you that anything called a contract
> and delivered in .doc is of no interest to me :)
>
>

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