What happens if a mentor removes themselves from the list (if they for some reasons don't want to continue being a mentor)? Will the newcomer get a new mentor automatically (and if so, will they be notified)?
Topic on Talk:Growth/2023
Once a user has been assigned a mentor, they keep that mentor even if the mentor removes themselves from the active mentor list.
The workaround is to use Special:ClaimMentee. It can be used by any other mentor who monitors the retired mentor's talk page so that they can empty the list of active newcomers for this retired mentor.
We are working on plans about scaling and improving tools for mentors. In your opinion, what would be the ideal solution for this situation? :)
I guess the tricky part is to know which newcomers were assigned to this mentor. Or is this information public somewhere?
The magic word is not a solution to this. It's just one user and it is actually the other way around. It shows a mentor for specific mentee. It would help if it would show all mentees for a specific mentor.
A tool that reassign mentees en masse would help there? You put a mentor's name in it and all mentees are reassigned. This is covered by T272376, as you know. :)
Yes. That would be great 🙂. I'm sometimes curios how many mentees I have, but I don't really need that info.
We have a project to have a mentor dashboard which could potentially include an overview of your mentees :)
Thanks for the answer.
One simple idea that we got was just to randomly assign a new mentor and then give a notification to the newcomer what has happened.
I support this idea.
The idea of automatically reassign activated mentees to new mentors when their mentor quits or is blocked is tracked as T272376, where I'm going to add your feedback.