I’ve made a mentoring request (Ruby track) 8 days ago, and there seem to be no takers. What now? There’s a big discrepancy between 1hr and 8 days. Is there something going on with the track?
There is an increased queue for Python and Ruby, there are not enough mentors to cover the increased demands. Although I recommend sitting tight (there are people in the queue who have waited 2 weeks), if it goes over a month I might be worried but otherwise more than a week isn’t too rare.
The request sits in the queue indefinitely until a mentor takes it or until you withdraw the request. Average values are just that - there are some requests that go quite fast and occasionally outliers that take a lot longer. Typically the harder the exercise (or the solution), the longer it may take.