On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Chip is correct. The tools we use in board meetings make it easy for us to > see how many PMC members in a TLP resolution are members. If there are not > enough we will sometimes put the project on an informal "watch list" (as > well as ensuring appropriate people from the PMC go on the members watch > list), occasionally we bounce the proposal back (this is pretty rare). > > With my Directors hat on I don't want a member being there just for > mentoring, it confuses the evaluation since that person will appear as a > committed PMC member but will in fact be nothing more than a mentor. What > is important is that the PMC knows where to go for help when they are > unsure of something. That expertise can (and should be) be present without > a mentor or a Member on the PMC. > > Maybe there's a hair to be split here. On a few occasions, I was asked by board members if I would join a graduating PMC that I had mentored. I have never felt that my role on these PMCs was to be a continuing mentor, it was to be a PMC member who had some extra experience, and I have been gradually leaving them over time.
