What’s a “vanity mentor“? How do I recognize one before a podling has a significant history? Who is currently accepting these vanity mentors and how would they stop doing so?
Hindsight is 20-20... I have no crystal ball. David Jencks Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 13, 2019, at 5:10 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Here's an idea... The IPMC focuses on supporting mentors to do their job >> rather than forcing project developers and their mentors to jump through >> arbitrarily defined hoops. > > What "arbitrarily defined hoops” are you referring to? ASF policy or > something else? > >> The IPMC doesn't need to enforce policy of any kind, except at the point of >> graduation. > > That seems less than ideal to me, why would a IPMC volunteer want to do that > job? And again IMO it introduces a hard gate that podlings are going to > dislike, probably more so than they do now. > >> When things change for individuals and they can no longer be good mentors >> then the IPMC needs to make it a priority to help find a new, truly >> dedicated mentor. It's a problem that needs to be solved, but let's worry >> about that when it's actually a problem rather than a hypothetical one. > > It’s currently a problem, not a hypothetical, see for instance votes coming > to this list without 3 mentors +1 votes, or the missing reports or missing > sign-offs on the current incubator report to the board. This problem isn’t > going unrecognised either, you’ll also note that recently nearly every month > new mentors have been found and added to podlings that need them. > > Thanks, > Justin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
