Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-21 Thread Dan Haywood
Being on the receiving end of mentorship (Isis), I can say that I've appreciated having 3 active mentors (Mark Struberg, Benson Marguiles and Mohammad Nour El-Din)... each has their own things that they are particularly good at picking up on, and I think we're the better for it. On a pragmatic not

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-19 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Mark Struberg wrote: > Imo it's always good to have a few pair of (active!) eyes having oversight. > > It's just simply too easy to miss something important - even for a > long-time committed mentor. > True, it is also important about how they co-ordinate with eac

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-09 Thread Mark Struberg
Imo it's always good to have a few pair of (active!) eyes having oversight. It's just simply too easy to miss something important - even for a long-time committed mentor. LieGrue, strub - Original Message - > From: Jim Jagielski > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Frid

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 2/3/2012 7:58 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > One thing I would like to be bantered about: > > Long ago, it was customary to have a single mentor for a podling. > Nowadays, the feelings are the more, the merrier. By the same measure, there is a role of Champion. If we can avoid fracturing that rol

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, ant elder wrote: >... A problem with multiple mentors is that with no single person > responsible its too easy for no one to do any mentoring because they > all leave the work for the others to do. The recent change to the > Champion role (what happened with that?)

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-03 Thread ant elder
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > One thing I would like to be bantered about: > > Long ago, it was customary to have a single mentor for a podling. > Nowadays, the feelings are the more, the merrier. > > Has the above been an experiment which succeeded, failed or is moot? > J

Re: Mentors as the core of the IPMC

2012-02-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > ...Long ago, it was customary to have a single mentor for a podling. > Nowadays, the feelings are the more, the merrier One *active* mentor is good enough for most podlings, but expecting the mentor to be always available is not realistic