On May 11, 2013, at 11:03 AM, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> 
wrote:

> 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 [;<).

Ahh, yeah, that was it.  I was also thinking that voting releases would be it 
as well.  The tooling would make the tracking automatic so the mundane task of 
tracking all the mentors for all the podlings would be automatic.


Regards,
Alan


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