If I'm a king of a dream forest... I think how to improve attractiveness of free software to contributors. It is no longer a cool trend. How about find some resources (maybe internal ones) to make people strengthen the community by creative reasons? Business reasons are short living (compared to creative reasons) and unpedictable. There is a long and unproductive discussion on how to make foss more attractive to business, improving it won't not hurt either.
Maybe attracting some educational resources / collaborating with them would help. This 100% success GSoC rate makes us turning some students away from Apache, and they should have some place to stay and learn and grow. More new blood will create more productive and successful and caring mentors. -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:40:59AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > > > On May 8, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On May 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Alan Cabrera wrote: > > >>> > > >>> On May 8, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Eric Johnson <e...@tibco.com> wrote: > > >>>> One last suggested refinement: > > >>>> > > >>>> At least two mentors, but perhaps not allow more than three, where > the third is generally a backup for the others in a transition period, such > as one of the mentors looking to shed their responsibilities. One point > that has come out of the discussion has been a lack of clear > responsibility. Adding more mentors dilutes that responsibility. Two allows > one as backup for the other. > > >>> > > >>> Yes, this was what I was thinking as well. Two active mentors, > maybe one or two inactive ones but since they officially declared > themselves inactive the active mentor know not to assume anything of them. > > >> > > >> I may be incorrect in my understanding of the official ASF policy here > > >> [1], but WRT a release, doesn't it require at least 3 +1 votes of the > > >> appropriate PMC (in the case of podlings, the IPMC)? If the mentors > > >> were limited to 2 within the podlings, then would that leave all > podling > > >> in a position of having to get a third +1 from the IPMC? > > > > > > We're the IPMC, we can change the rules if we need to. > > > > Oh, I see this is an ASF rule. Maybe we should have three active > mentors? > > That was exactly my point, yes. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
