Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Rodric Rabbah
>> Instead of having to actually DO releases, at least Release Candidates >> should be created ... this would prove the general ability to do a release, >> but not actually DO it. Of course if these RCs contain bad things, they >> should not pass. > > I suspect in some cases there are repos

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Also seriously don’t stress about this, as a podling you are not expected to know everything and learn as you go along. Try to ask your mentors for help and involve them more, they can help with stuff like this, Thanks, Justin

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > That's exactly what we tried and were given grief about. We waited > until 3 binding +1 votes, which is for practical purposes all of our > active mentors To be accurate this was tried without any discussion about this decision on a mailing list (that I could find). IMO (and others may

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Adrian Cole
> If the mentors on the project list have voted +1, then the vote can be > continued in parallel? Shouldn't this help reduce both the time votes take > but not waste the limited IPMC bandwidth? That's exactly what we tried and were given grief about. We waited until 3 binding +1 votes, which is

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Christofer Dutz
How about this as compromise? If the mentors on the project list have voted +1, then the vote can be continued in parallel? Shouldn't this help reduce both the time votes take but not waste the limited IPMC bandwidth? Regarding releasing of all repos ... how about this: Instead of having to

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-05 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Please take this as friendly advice with with a bit of experience and personal opinion thrown in. (if that intent is not obvious). > * "parallel votes" is a technique to reduce the lag between dev@ and > general@ by starting the IPMC vote slightly after, but before > conclusion of the PPMC

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-04 Thread Ted Dunning
Very useful. On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:22 PM Adrian Cole wrote: > Hi, all. > > Through Zipkin's incubation, I noticed that knowledge of state of the > art is not equally distributed. Some voting approaches already in use > aren't known. Also what you can use to automate isn't known. As >

Re: late learnings, which could be helpful for all mentors to know

2019-06-04 Thread Antoine Toulme
Thanks Adrian, this is all good to know. > On Jun 4, 2019, at 9:21 PM, Adrian Cole wrote: > > Hi, all. > > Through Zipkin's incubation, I noticed that knowledge of state of the > art is not equally distributed. Some voting approaches already in use > aren't known. Also what you can use to