On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:29 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?
+1 on the general idea. Personally, I believe that anything that simplifies the structure of the incubation process is a good thing. On that same note -- my current understanding is that the mentor assignment is pretty permanent for the duration of the incubation -- if that's indeed the case, perhaps having a more fluid process of mentor checking out and stepping up to help a project would also help us have a more positive experience for the poddlings. IOW, for any other TLP there's a presumption that a single PMC (or committer) can have a certain amount of down time when, for whatever reason, they may completely go dark as far project involvement is concerned. I'm not sure there's such an option for a mentor. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
