2009/7/14 Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com>: >> +1 (binding) on the singular change of dropping Mladen Turk and Nick Kew >> as Mentors since that makes it 5 mentors, which is problematic (3 seems >> to be the max). > > Where does that idea come from? Mentors are Incubator PMC members. If more > than three (3) want to engage on a project that interests them, why limit > it? Any issues that might arise from having more than three (3) would arise > in the world outside of the Incubator, too.
I think it comes from Jim's head ;-) possibly via an observation that some podlings have a lot of signed up Mentors but few who takes charge and get the things moving, especially the first couple of months. I disagree that it is related to 'how many' (more=worse) and is really an issue of "quality by quantity", in that "quantity" increases the chances that there are some "quality" in the group. Sometimes I feel it was easier in the days of a single Mentor, since the blame^h^h^h^h^h responsibility is obvious, but being the single Mentor is 'too much work' for me to go back to such arrangement. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
