Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-21 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: As in any such survey, author identity should be optional. Sometimes it can be deduced, but not always, and if someone would rather not mention their name, we should give them that opportunity. Sometimes preserving anonymity

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/21/13 5:58 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013, at 01:52 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk wrote: As in any such survey, author identity should be optional. Sometimes it can be deduced, but not always, and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-21 Thread Eric Johnson
Part of how best to handle this is to remind people, when they're complaining, to keep two things in mind: a) only state the behavior you observed/read/witnessed, and be specific, rather than using generalizations such as always, or never. b) Keep to I statements. As silly as the template

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-20 Thread Upayavira
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 03:54 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Solution: require all podlings to submit anonymous exit interviews as part of the graduation requirements. These exit interviews will be suitably scrubbed

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:18:16AM +0100, Upayavira wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 03:54 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Solution: require all podlings to submit anonymous exit interviews as part of the graduation

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-20 Thread Upayavira
Anomnity of the individual not the project. I can say my mentor was crap without stating my name - I could be any one of the PPMC. Upayavira On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:18:16AM +0100, Upayavira wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 03:54

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-19 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alan Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Solution: require all podlings to submit anonymous exit interviews as part of the graduation requirements. These exit interviews will be suitably scrubbed and organized by the Incubator Ombudsman; see next proposal. A

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-16 Thread Alexei Fedotov
I believe a set of automatically generated monthly metrics including a number of commits, total number of letters to the project mail list and number of mentor letters to the list will give a good picture which projects experience which problems. 15.06.2013 19:48 пользователь Alan Cabrera

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-16 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: I'm not keen on this one. I don't like surveys and I don't like mandatory activities for volunteers. Yet, Apache does have mandatory reporting for podlings and TLPs. It's not like this is particularly onerous. (Note, I read the proposal as

[PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-15 Thread Alan Cabrera
Problem: we seem to have unclear and conflicting ideas as to what the areas of improvement are for the Incubator. Cause: we have no concrete, anonymized, information on what the podlings' experiences were during incubation. Solution: require all podlings to submit anonymous exit interviews as

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-15 Thread Ross Gardler
I'm not keen on this one. I don't like surveys and I don't like mandatory activities for volunteers. However, a pro-active invitation to feedback on experiences at any time during incubation or shortly after would be good. Even better would be recruiting more valuable people from podlings as

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mandatory podling exit interviews

2013-06-15 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Agreed on the undesirability of making survey participation mandatory. On the wiki page in question I framed it as a right that surveys are available fwiw. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I'm not keen on this one. I don't like