Emmanuel, I agree. Part of it is mentors basically driving the podling towards graduation. You want that hand off, and that hand off is pretty much a sign that they're ready to move on. Early podlings will need more hand holding, just like newborns.
If you need to step away from the podling, the IPMC wants to know that. Nothing is held against you, we all have different commitments. We'd rather see podlings with available mentors than mentors not available. We can add more mentors via the mailing lists. John On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:23 PM Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> 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... >
