On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 22:35, Luciano Resende wrote: > 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.
I was thinking about this differently: mentors be responsible for ensuring IPMC has a complete picture, but normally the PPMC members write the reports. (Not unlike how, in a PMC, any PMC member might write the report but it's the Chair's responsibility to ensure it is complete and accurate.) > > -- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
