mentee

A mentor is someone the mentee knows and trusts from beyond their peer group.

That the mentee (if that's a word) can build up confidence and the pair can work as colleagues.

A mentor is not something a mentee uses.

As a mentor, my goal is to help develop the tools and provide the context for my mentee's success.

Working together on problems will result in dramatic improvements if the mentee has the right attitude.

Perhaps in time the mentee will get to the point where they can challenge and expand the mentor's own understanding.

If you don't more or less except your mentor's guidance, you're not really a mentee.

Ideally, a potential mentee: -- Wants to code her or his own small search engine.

Mentorship is incredibly selfish: often the person doing the mentoring gets more out of the conversation than the mentee...case in point.

The idea of mentor/mentee and master/apprentice relationships is way overdue in the software industry.

Making small mistakes as a mentor can have disastrous results on the mentee’s life.

And your ability to form successful mentor/mentee relationships will help you much more in the future than learning new tech of the week.

After registering, it gives you this message which says they'll help match you up with a mentee: "Thanks for pledging to mentor!

I'd still have to get done a full weeks work, but I'd get to pair exclusively with a "mentee" for a couple months till they were up to speed.

"Mentored bugs" is an interesting approach, but normally people have mentors, not bugs, and I think that having a "mentor/mentee" field on user profiles may be the right approach for Mozilla; the field would show up on comments/patches I post.