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SE-384 Add details and clarify roles for newcomers and mentors

Jillian Vogel requested to merge jill/newcomers-and-mentors into master

This PR updates the roles and expectations for mentors and newcomers, and provides details on the onboarding and evaluation process.

What's been done here

What hasn't been done here

(but may be done as part of a future task)

  • Should we standardize the metrics we use to assess candidates? We haven't really decided how far down the "standardization" route we want to go with our evaluations. But where specific requirements exist (like minimum spillover), I felt it worth mentioning clearly to support transparency and fairness for our candidates.
  • How to ensure candidates have enough variety of tasks to allow us to effectively assess their abilities? Some improvements have been made here with the changes to role expectations, but we'll need to continuously improve on this.

JIRA tickets: SE-384

Discussions: See SE-384 for relevant forum and task links.

Testing instructions:

  1. Read through the markdown changes and ensuring the text is accurate and renders correctly.
  2. Build the docs to ensure that the addition to the table of contents works correctly. See README for instructions -- you'll need pipenv and mkdocs installed.

Reviewers:

And anyone else who would like to comment is welcome! I'm unsure how many people need to approve before this can be merged.

Edited by Jillian Vogel

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