Berin Lautenbach wrote:
Noel,
No - I agree :>.
My comments about a mentor is nothing to do with Status files or the like. It's all about having one formal link between the current ASF and the particular project in incubation.
In fact that person doing all the status reports etc. I would see as counterproductive, for all the reasons you detail below. But they should be the person who kicks these things off and helps the PPMC ensure they start occuring.
The "formal mentor" is not even necessarily a development person, just someone who is assigned to assist the project get underway, and who is seen by the INcubator PMC as the person who should be ensuring everything is happening the way it should.
That is *not* the PPMC. The purpose of the PPMC is to get a group in place that will become the PMC on maturation. The mentor is the person guiding the PPMC in its role at the start and playing less of a role as time goes on. But (IMO) you need someone to formally bootstrap the PPMC and ensure everything is going properly.
+1
Stephen.
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