1 responsible mentor doesn't exclude 3 or more IPMC members helping out, but if everyone is supposed to do it, it will happen that no one feel enough obligated to do so. Why do we have a PMC Chair? Why not 3? There is purpose of elevated responsibility, it works outside ASF and I am confident it will work here too.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> >> wrote: >>> I was thinking about this differently: mentors be responsible for >>> ensuring IPMC has a complete picture, but normally the PPMC members >>> write the reports. (Not unlike how, in a PMC, any PMC member might >>> write the report but it's the Chair's responsibility to ensure it is >>> complete and accurate.) >> >> And I want to throw in my pet peeve; 1 Mentor! >> One Responsible Mentor is better than 5 paper ones, and with a minimal >> work load (whatever that might be) the "trimmed IPMC" (also good idea) >> will know quickly when Mentor is AWOL, pretty much like Board sees >> missing PMC Chairs. > > I disagree. Everybody gets busy from time to time. But a podling doesn't need > 5 mentors. It is also helpful to have three mentors who are on the IPMC since > it makes it easier to get a release vote to pass if all 3 mentors are active. > > Ralph > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/3xugrbk I work here; http://tinyurl.com/6a2pl4j I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
