No exercises to mentor? (Using Exercism v3 for the first time)

[giner]

I used to mentor Bash track and enjoyed doing this a lot. I’m checking this and other tracks now and I see 0 mentoring requests almost everywhere with some exceptions.

Is this because there are a lot of mentors and everything gets cleared quickly or this is because there are not many mentoring requests? Are there any stats?

Also I’m wondering whether there is a way to get notified about new mentoring requests without a need to go and check the queue every time.

[glennj]

Is this because there are a lot of mentors and everything gets cleared quickly or this is because there are not many mentoring requests?

A combination of the two, I think.

Stats: not directly, but you can do this:

• go to the Contributors page
• select the Track you’re interested in
• select Category “Mentoring”
• select the time frame

Note that this shows mentoring sessions that have closed in the time frame, now who currently owns continuing sessions.

Notifications: In Discord, there are threads for each language in the #mentor-requests channel: you can subscribe to the threads you’re interested in.

[IsaacG]

Some tracks are much more active than others.