Hopefully it will go more smoothly after the reboot. However, I'm sure there will still be rare questions.
At the moment, there's still an open question that Pam asked about the failed 3rd merge. Could a mentor reply to that thread and try to help get that resolved? On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... >> >>
