The PHP Core Mentorship Program

This PHP Core Mentorship wiki page is a work in progress. As developers and community members interested in the program voice their interests, this page will be modified to reflect the program's behaviour.

• Discuss: The level of mentorship required

The general idea of the PHP Core Mentorship Program (“PCMP”) is to create a channel between the rest of the world and the PHP internals where more experienced developers can transfer their knowledge and get a fresh perspectives from new developers that haven't approached the core before.

This concept is not a new idea in the world of open source as most internal developers and community members are aware or have been exposed to Google Summer of Code before. Python also has created the Python Core Mentorship Program which has the exact same intent as this program: Close the bridge between PHP communities and their language.

Before investigating further, we need to identify who would be willing to be a mentor for this program. Many “mentees” have already raised and showed their interests however only a few internal developers have shown any type of interest.

It should be important to potential mentors that we are not looking for the same degree of mentorship that GSOC provides (Unless the mentor is interested in doing that of course), but we are rather trying to achieve the following:

• Introducing new developers to the PHP and PECL process
• Answering questions of any complexity (There's no stupid question)
• Helping with code reviews and patches (See the “phpmentors”[https://github.com/phpmentors] organisation on Github)

If this is something you'd be interested in mentoring, please add yourselves to the grid below. Keep in mind that Little implies only a few hours per week, Moderate implies an hour or more every day and Teacher implies available all day.

Also please enter which areas you would be interested in helping with: