Hi, On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:09 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a huge fan of the current emphasis being placed on reports. > Another avenue for finding inactive mentors could be things like > looking at mentor participation in poddling releases. Is it better or > worse to have mentors who don't sign their poddling wiki reports or > don't review their releases? Even with release reviews we have some > mentors who say they don't do release reviews, bizarre as that sounds > i guess people have different perspectives.
Good point. There's definitely room for different approaches to mentoring, and they can often supplement each other quite nicely. > Mentors have different styles, some are quite hands on some aren't, > and ideally a poddling, especially nearing graduation, should be > largely self supporting so having no mentor interaction is not > necessarily a problem and it may even be a positive sign. Exactly. My focus on community interactions on the mailing list and report sign-offs here is just a rough proxy for mentor activity. As you demonstrate, it's by no means infallible and I definitely don't want to cast those aspects as some kind of a "one true approach" to mentoring. > Another approach you could try if you want to find inactive mentors > could be to just send an email to general@ with the list of all the > poddling mentors and ask are you still active and see who answers. Yep. I actually considered doing just that, but figured that using available data to preprocess the message should help us focus on those cases that really do need to be looked after. I guess a few false positives are inevitable with this approach, but that's fine as long as we're just gathering information and have a mechanism for correcting such mistakes. Anyway, let's see how this works out and tweak the approach based on experience. BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
