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Subject: Re: Exercism.io needs Ada
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On Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 12:30:42 AM UTC-5, axtens wrote:
> In case anyone is looking to encourage people to learn and use Ada,=20
> Exercism.io is a good place to learn. Lots of languages already but Ada=
=20
> isn't one of them. Become a maintainer or a mentor.=20
>=20
> Maintainer: https://exercism.io/become-a-maintainer=20
> Mentor: https://exercism.io/become-a-mentor#more-info=20
>=20
> Bruce Axtens, vbnet maintainer and students of about 26 languages none=20
> of which are, sadly, Ada.

Since you are a maintainer on another language (Visual Basic .Net), what is=
 the precise sequence of steps that one would need to perform to become the=
 1st maintainer of a new presence of Ada in Exercism.io?  I think that the =
1st maintainer is specifically the person who bootstraps up a new language'=
s presence on exercism.io, correct?  Apparently the sequence of steps might=
 begin:
1) Practice being a newbie student of some arbitrary existing(-on-exercism.=
io) language's exercises to get the feel for how exercism.io is supposed to=
 operate.
then
2) Contact another language's maintainer to be the 1st maintainer of Ada's =
fresh presence on exercism.io.

Are there more steps than that?  For example, must the 1st maintainer recru=
it a separate 1st mentor or must the 1st maintainer act also as 1st mentor?=
  Are those 2 steps perfectly stated or are they botched somehow?  Does som=
e sort of vetting occur for the quality of a maintainer at time of voluntee=
ring that could cause the 1st maintainer to be rejected?  Does some sort of=
 vetting occur for the desirability of a programming language occur up at e=
xercism.io =E2=80=9Ccorporate=E2=80=9D that could cause Ada itself (indepen=
dent of the 1st maintainer) to be rejected?  It seems that Ada and (AdaSubs=
et-with-)SPARK would be 2 separate languages on exercism.io (otherwise it g=
ets confusing), correct?  Why doesn't exercism.io have an overt webpage tha=
t answers these questions for how to bootstrap up a language's new presence=
 on exercism.io (as this seems to be a separate & distinct topic to becomin=
g the 2nd-or-subsequent-mentor that does have its own webpage explanation a=
lready)?