On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> 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? > Justify your decision. >
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?) was an attempt to help fix that. A problem with less than three active mentors is that it can sometimes be hard to get three release votes. Even with three mentors there are lots of examples where things like releases are not being taught or vetted. Making an ASF release really isn't that hard but we still often get RC votes on general@ with quite basic licensing flaws which makes you wonder if the mentors have done anything at all to help the poddling learn how to make a release. Presently I'd probably lean towards a single mentor being better and to find some better way of poddlings learning release requirements and then more quickly getting their own binding votes. ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
