I wonder if it would interesting to have the possibility to “assign” a mentoree to a mentor for a given track.
My use case is this one: I have a junior student that I mentor, so I told her to sign-up on exercism.
I try to mentor her solutions, but it is not always possible given anyone can pickup the exercice to mentor it (which is great in fact!). So she sends me an e-mail each time she posts a new exercice, and if it is still available when I see it I pick it up.
In this specific case, it would be nice if she could request a review for a specific mentor (and I could accept or reject it for example).
No idea if this is very specific to my situation or not, but I just wanted to mention it!
@iHiD It seems this panel is frequently overlooked. (Or do we have stats to the contrary?) Maybe a UI rethink is in order? Perhaps two buttons instead of one: one for regular mentoring, and one that provides you with the link when clicked.
Lots of people miss lots of stuff everywhere. I always find it difficult to know whether it’s due to information overload, bad design, or just people having a bad day. Having just spent a day getting used to Discord, I feel like I’ve missed everything constantly but I’m sure most people get on fine with it. So yeah, I dunno.
I definitely think a lot of these pages could be simplified a bit though.
My son is mentoring me in JavaScript and I use that link to reach him. But if I also write about what I need to discuss in the mentoring text box, that’s not retained. So I have to begin the conversation in the email I use to send the link: it would be much more convenient to begin in the mentoring space that will hold the whole discussion.
I think I have missed it myself for quite a while. Never needed it though.
The main content is in the main panel. A new user, I read it. (There is much to read, but the main panel seems like the place to start.) A button says «Request mentoring». And it works! I’ll use it again next time and not look elsewhere.
@iHiD I can only guess because I didn’t look for it myself by trying to submit a solution, I was only the mentor in this instance.
I tried to find a way in my parameters to “assign” a student to myself.
I should probably have tried the “student path” to see for myself.
Maybe, if we want to improve the experience for a mentor looking for it, add a question in the FAQ, or somewhere in the Mentoring guidelines (Mentoring Guides | Exercism's Docs).
That’s also somewhere I looked when searching for this option.
