It's often called a dead-man's switch. I think the term applied originally to locomotive engineers and also metro car drivers. (I'm not sure what a dead pilot switch could accomplish in an aircraft.)
I think having mentors review and "sign" PPMC status reports is an effective dead mentor's switch [;<). - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cabrera [mailto:l...@toolazydogs.com] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 10:10 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [META DISCUSS] talking about the overall state of this PMC On May 11, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Joseph Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Frankly I find the notion that the board will do a better job of MENTORING > these projects than the IPMC to be batshit insane, but that's just me. > We need manpower, and there is plenty of that available amongst the competent > volunteers who actively participate in these projects. Let's just do > what's easiest for once and promote these folks to the IPMC in order > to get the job done right. It's a proven model that we need to stop > fighting. Yes, shuttling the kids off the the grandparents is not going to solve anything. If individuals on the board have the bandwidth to help they should come over here. There's nothing specific about the auspices of the board that would improve the situation. I personally think that we have "almost" enough people to mentor. I think that the burnout comes from our constant churning of policy and lack of tooling to make mundane tasks easier. For example, maybe better reminders for reports automatic nudging of mentors who have not signed reports dead pilot buttons to detect inactive mentors (Is it called a dead pilot button) maybe a standard to podling releases to make vetting easier - i.e. apply tooling changes/additions to vetting procedures taking place outside of release votes. (ok not a tooling issue) Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
