Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > three cheers for Roman for all his hard work! +1! +1! +1! > For all other projects in the Foundation, we say, 'The chair is just a > clerk who facilitates communications with the board.' Here at the > IPMC, we expect the chair to be mode

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to raise a topic directly related to the succession. To start, three cheers for Roman for all his hard work! For all other projects in the Foundation, we say, 'The chair is just a clerk who facilitates communications with the board.' Here at the IPMC, we expect the chair to be moderator o

Re: Jan 2015 board report

2015-01-01 Thread jan i
On 1 January 2015 at 18:08, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: > > > I'll wait until tomorrow to see if any emails get out. If not, then > I'll send > > manual reminders to all the relevant podling dev lists. > > Since the report reminders script

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Upayavira wrote: > The incubator PMC does fulfill one important role, that of being a > vettor of releases. It doesn't always do it well, but sometimes it does. > The scenario you describe above would put that responsibility entirely > upon the mentors. > > I would

Re: Jan 2015 board report

2015-01-01 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > I'll wait until tomorrow to see if any emails get out. If not, then I'll send > manual reminders to all the relevant podling dev lists. Since the report reminders script never fired, I sent out manual reminders this morning. Notes: *

Re: Tracking mentor sign-off

2015-01-01 Thread John D. Ament
On Wed Dec 31 2014 at 10:14:25 PM Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi! > > in the interest of making incremental progress > I've added a section to the report tracking > lack of mentor sign-off on a per mentor basis. > > The idea is simple: and is similar to how we > track missing reports themselves: al

Re: Reflections from the outgoing Chair

2015-01-01 Thread Upayavira
The incubator PMC does fulfill one important role, that of being a vettor of releases. It doesn't always do it well, but sometimes it does. The scenario you describe above would put that responsibility entirely upon the mentors. I would argue though, that it doesn't require a 100+ committee to ful