Hi, Jukka. I already joined ipmc when Amber invited me (acknowledged by ipmc too). Which status file did you refer to?
Thanks, Raymond Feng Sent from my iPhone On May 2, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > To a large extent the Incubator relies on the efforts of our mentors > to help podling communities learn the Apache Way and the various ASF > policies and practices. Usually this works pretty well, but every know > and then we see podlings that are left struggling with little or no > mentor help. An unfortunately we don't have very good mechanisms in > place for detecting and dealing with such situations. > > I'd like to start fixing that by first figuring out the extent of the > problem and identifying at least the podlings worst affected by such > "mentor deficit". To do so I started going through the mentors listed > for each podling reporting this month (except ones still in their > first quarter) and tried to spot any community interactions from the > mentors over the past three months on either the public or private > project mailing lists. I classified a mentor as "active" if at least > one such interaction (including a report sign-off) was spotted, and > "inactive" otherwise. IMHO someone who doesn't show up with any > feedback or other help, not even a +1 to a draft report, over an > entire quarter isn't living up to the expectations we generally set on > project mentors. > > If your name shows up as an "inactive" mentor below, that may be a) a > mistake on my part, b) temporary absence for whatever reason, c) a > call to action, or d) a reason to consider resigning from mentoring > that particular podling. In case of d), such resignation should not be > considered a failure (we're all volunteers here), but rather a > valuable signal to the rest of the IPMC that new mentors may be needed > for that podling. > > With that background, here are my results for the first batch of six > podlings (more to come over the next few days): > > Airavata > - active: Alek Slominski, Ate Douma, Chris Mattmann, Ross Gardler > - inactive: Paul Fremantle, Sanjiva Weerawarana > > Ambari > - active: Owen O'Malley > - inactive: Arun C. Murthy, Chris Douglas > > Amber > - active, not in status file: Raymond Feng > - inactive: Brian McCallister, David Jencks, Gianugo Rabellino, > Jean-Frederic Clere > - listed in projects.xml: Henning Schmiedehausen > > Clerezza > - active: Ross Gardler > - inactive: Karl Pauls, Reinhard Poetz > - listed in projects.xml: Gianugo Rabellino > > DeltaSpike > - active: David Blevins, Gerhard Petracek, Jim Jagielski, Mark > Struberg, Matt Benson, Matthias Wessendorf > > Droids > - active: Richard Frovarp, Thorsten Scherler > - inactive: Paul Fremantle > > Note that for Amber and Clerezza the the projects.xml file lists a > different set of mentors than than the status page. I assume that the > status page is more up to date in such cases. We discussed this > mismatch a bit in another thread some while ago, but it looks like we > need to bring that up again. > > Also, Amber seems to have invited Raymond Feng as a new mentor, but > the status page hasn't yet been updated to reflect this. Raymond, if > you're reading this, as a mentor you should join the IPMC to have a > binding vote on matters related to the podling. As an ASF member you > can simply let me know that you want to join the IPMC and I'll take > care of the rest. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
