The Importance of Contributor Mentors

The idea of a contributor mentor is to act as a buffer between the primary project maintainers and new active or new potential contributors. "I think that the new potential contributors part is important because, you know, there are people who will be excited about a source they want to show up to make a contribution," he says. But it can be difficult to get going, started going to,you know, contributing. Django is not now a project where there are really low hanging fruit, which you come along, snip off and you've contributed a major new feature.