On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. <mfrank...@mitre.org> wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:nic...@hedhman.org] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:25 PM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer >>Subject: Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings >> >>I like Joe's suggestion of having Mentors writing a report. But I >>would like the PPMC get some experience as well, since once they >>graduate they are tossed into the fire of producing "real" board >>reports on their own. >> >>Possible extension of Joe's suggestion; The PPMC produce the Board >>report as if they were a top level project. Mentor produce separately >>the "road map to graduation" report, covering what has been done, what >>is going on right now and what is left to do. IPMC will quickly see >>AWOL Mentors and which podlings need help, without taking away the >>"training" of the PPMC... > > From my perspective as a podling PPMC member, I disagree with this approach. > From what I have learned, it is the Incubator's responsibility to develop a > self-sustaining community. IMO, any viable community should be responsible > for managing their own destiny. Mentors should prod, poke, suggest, > influence, coach and verify everything the podling does, but the PPMC should > be responsible for developing and reporting out a graduation roadmap.
+1, The mentor should help, but producing the actual report should be a Community/PPMC responsibility. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
