On 05.10.2011 11:48, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> wrote: >> ...In the past we allowed every committer to be a GSoC mentor. This is only >> problematic with past >> students that still have Apache accounts but have never been voted in as >> committers. So we either >> have to restrict mentors to be PMC members or PMC-approved or make sure that >> we can identify >> temporary accounts created for GSoC students. I personally favor the second >> option... > I agree with the need to make sure temporary accounts don't stick around. > > OTOH I think asking PMCs to approve their mentors would be good, if > only to make sure each PMC is aware of which of their committers are > mentors. This could be a simple lazy consensus approval, where we ask > each mentor to inform their PMC's private list, telling them to bark > if they disagree, and copy that message to our private GSoC mentors > list. > > -Bertrand
A good idea but I doubt that a lazy concensus will effectively prevent non-committers from becoming mentors. Some PMC members simply won't care about GSoC and don't disagree, others might think "hey great, a volunteer" without knowing our policies on who may become a mentor. While it seems like a good idea to involve the PMCs some more I think that we should, in addition, require accounts created for students to be marked as such. Uli
