Hi Emmanuel,
I understand perfectly what you're saying. I mentored a few projects
that had strong open source background outside of the ASF, which was
very easy to mentor. Other projects come from a corporate background
with a certain set of ideas about how things should go, and they are
much harder to mentor. I think OpenAz is closer to the latter, but it
can be done.
That said, I think we're good for now, and mentors cat talk to each
other and find more help if necessary. I don't think mentor
unavailability is the biggest OpenAz problem.
Cheers,
Hadrian
On 04/20/2016 01:23 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
Le 20/04/16 18:58, John D. Ament a écrit :
Hadrian,
With my IPMC hat on, I'd like to recommend that:
1. The mentors need to stay active. They need to be responsive to both the
community and the PPMC in play here.
Then we need at least one or two more mentors. We currently are 3, and
if I had some time last year, it's not really the case today. The thing
is that mentors participate to a podling expecing the committers to take
over pretty quickly. I was mentoring the Groovy project pretty much
during the same time span, it it went like a breeze : the community was
active, responsive, and at some point, as a mentor, my help wasn't
anymore needed. Tht what I would expect from any podling.
Draging a podling for semesters (years ?) is certainly draining mentor's
energy...
