Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-12 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/11/10 Jukka Zitting : > 3) Increase the amount of mentoring: The lack of mentor time and > better (not necessarily more) supporting documentation gives > unnecessary administrational and procedural headaches (failed release > votes, etc.) to many podlings. > > Without more volunteers there's n

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-12 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: 1) Relax the exit criteria: Especially the diversity requirement is a major barrier for many projects. There have been various calls to relax the diversity requirements, but so far I se

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-11 Thread Martijn Dashorst
I like the proposal of 3 steps prior to releasing... In Greg's words: it teaches instead of hinders. It divides the arduous process of cutting a release in more manageable steps and would make passing the actual release easier/faster. Martijn On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: >> I personally think that the exit criteria are good as they are (in >> hindsight, Abdera is a good example of a project that graduated with >> barely enough diversity of active

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-10 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> My point above was the Board, at least in the past(*), has *not* been >> happy about the average duration. > > The way I see it, there are three main things we could do to shorten > the