Scaling Mentorship in Kubernetes with Paris Pittman

Managing a large open source project comes with many challenges. Some are about how code is pushed and running tests, others are about the community of contributors. Paris Pittman, Developer Relations Program Manager at Google explains how mentoring is an engineering problem and not a people problem. We talked about the different ways in which they’re scaling mentoring to thousands of Kubernetes contributors and the role of technology in this process. Paris explained how they gathered data and used that to understand the different types of mentoring that can be provided.

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