I noted in my comments on the recent Incubator board report that I am
concerned, month after month, at the number of podlings that have no
mentor sign-off at all, as well as the ones where a minority of the
mentors sign-off.
I certainly don't expect that every mentor has their full attention on a
podling every month, but I do expect that a podling that cares about its
incubation will seek out that mentor sign-off, and that the mentors who
have committed to help a podling into the family will have a few moments
every few months to look in and approve a report.
The result, unfortunately, is that we have projects graduating with no
notion of the importance of reporting, and so we have TLPs that look at
reporting as a checkbox, submit exactly the same cut-and-paste report
each month, some of them without even changing stats and dates, or skip
their reporting entirely.
I don't mean to point fingers here - this is a problem that has existed
literally since the beginning of the Incubator, and I'm not innocent of
it myself. Indeed, I don't show up often enough even on this list.
But I wonder if we might, as the Board does, reject reports that have no
sign-off, and force projects to report again the following month, in an
attempt to require them to engage with their mentor(s) a little more?
This seems like a small, easily reversible, step, that has a good chance
of achieving something.
Thoughts?
(Please note that I originally started this thread on the IPMC list, and
some discussion has happened there, but it has been pointed out that
it's more appropriate to have this conversation in public.)
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