Request for Drew Blessing to become a Merge Request Coach

Why you want to become a Merge Request Coach?

Before I joined GitLab I was very active in OSS, including in the GitLab project as a Core Team member. I've been at GitLab now 10 years and the last few years have not been as close to OSS as I used to be - although I still get asked to review contributions from time to time. I would like to become more active with the community again. Community contributions remain and important part of GitLab and I want to help contributors get their contributions merged.

How much time you are planning to spend on it?

A few hours per week - I will find a balance between current work and MR coach duties and adjust as needed.

Which duties you are focusing on (e.g. triage, finish stale MRs)?

Initially more triage but as time permits I can take over stale MRs.

Developer checklist

• Title this MR Request for <Your Name> to become a Merge Request Coach.
• Add "Merge Request Coach" to your "departments" and "expertise" sections in your user file in data/team_members/person/.
• Add at least one project to your "projects" section in your user file.
• Join the #mr-coaching Slack channel and say Hi to let the other coaches know that they have additional support.
• When this MR is ready, mention your manager and ask them to merge it.
• After this MR is merged, assign to an existing coach (ping @gitlab-org/coaches or an individual coach) who will perform the next checklist. 👇

Coach (with Owner Permissions) checklist

• After this MR is merged, add to the @gitlab-org/coaches group.

/cc @gitlab-org/developer-relations/contributor-success

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