Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > The role of Mentor is an Incubator specific notion, having no > > existence in the ASF legal structure. Members, Officers and > > PMC Members, on the other hand, do. > > > > The Incubator PMC needs to maintain legal oversight over all of > > its constituent projects, and as the Incubator grows, it becomes > > vital that we be able to scale that oversight. This is, in part, > > why I have been pushing to have at least three Mentors per project. > > Sure, the entire PMC has a binding over over the entire Incubator, > > but no one can watch every project. So we need the Mentors to be > > active in the community. Not only are they there to provide > > guidance, but to provide oversight. Only PMC members have binding > > votes, as per the ASF bylaws, so Mentors need to be on the PMC in > > order to have that binding vote. > > > > So really. a Mentor is a PMC member who is choosing to be active > > and help in guiding the community.
> Thanks for the clarification. Should I update > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html Well, we've needed to do some updating, but I've just posted "Incubator Roles revisited", so we'll see what discussion falls out of it. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
