+1 I like the idea. We'll obviously need to update our docs.
Regards, Alan On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > acting as a mentor that was never my understanding. if the result of > this thread is to clarify this point, fine. > > On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > >> My understanding of mentor sign off is that all active mentors sign off, >> not just one. Lack of sign off means the mentor has been busy elsewhere for >> that quarter and feels unqualified to signoff. >> >> So,whilst looking for absent mentors is good I'd suggest we already have a >> process in place and thus dont need more process. We simply, as an IPMC, >> need to use the existing process as (at least I feel) it was intended. >> >> Ross >> >> Sent from my tablet >> On Nov 4, 2012 10:30 PM, "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I want to thank all of you for the vote(s) of confidence in recommending me >>> as the IPMC chair. While it's always possible that the Board will decline >>> the suggestion, it doesn't seem too terribly presumptuous to start looking >>> ahead. >>> >>> My goal is to continue along the path blazed by Jukka, and then, like him, >>> hand over. So, set your egg-timers for a bit more than a year, and think, >>> please, about stepping up. >>> >>> I think that the shepherd system has worked well. At the same time, I think >>> that it was invented to compensate for a problem, and that we could make >>> additional progress toward resolving that problem. >>> >>> Why do we have shepherds? Because we have had mentors who have found it >>> impractical to exercise detailed supervision on the podlings. Our job as an >>> entire PMC is to supervise the podlings. It seems logical to me that the >>> mentors of each podling would provide that supervision. Of course, things >>> happen. Shepherds have been helping to detect holes and compensate for >>> those things. >>> >>> With this idea in mind, for December, I do not want to eliminate shepherds. >>> But I want to float a proposal that might, over time, help us stop needing >>> them. >>> >>> At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a >>> space for each of the mentors, every month, to reaffirm his or her >>> involvement in the podling. Thus, instead of (at most) one mentor signing >>> off on the report, itself, we'd get a reading on how many mentors are in >>> the game. If the number were less than 3 -- and -- especially, if it were >>> less than one, we'd be alerted and could make it a priority to find >>> replacements. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
