+1; this matches my understanding. -C On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:59 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? >>
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