On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Just curious, is the ombudsman not allowed to be a mentor for a podling? > Otherwise, that podling doesn't have a safe third-party?
Good point. Podlings are heavily dependent on their Mentors, especially for providing IPMC votes on releases. If you offend a Mentor and they leave, will you be able to find someone else from the limited pool of IPMC members? A reluctance to speak out is very understandable. Put another way, when the ombud is also a Mentor, the military-justice analogy seems valid. I suppose that if the IPMC Chair is not the same as the ombud, they could serve as a backup ombud. That would satisfy your concern so long as the ombud and the Chair aren't both Mentors for the same podling. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
