On Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > As I said before I'm currently against having mentors who are not > > Incubator PMC members, > > As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to > become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see bottom of > [1]).This may exclude people with practical experience of being involved > in a podling and making it a top level project who want to help out with > other podlings. Of course they can help out in ways that doesn't involve > them being a mentor but (IMO) the barrier to entry seems a little high. > > I also been unable to find any info on the incubator site on shepherds > and what's the process to become involved there. If someone could point > me in the right direction I'd be grateful.
Shepherding is a new thing, loosely based upon an approach that the board has used for some time. I'm sure it is largely undocumented. I suspect that generally speaking it is incubator PMC members that do shepherding, but if someone reads reports and provides useful analysis, I suspect this will be greatly appreciated. Upayavira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
