Whilst I agree there is value in demonstrating a starting podling what a good report should look like by doing it for them, I also strongly believe in learning by doing, so I would still propose that a podling has a go at it themselves, before having a mentor step in. In the end, this is also a question of "mentoring style" and I think we should leave that up to the mentors and podlings.
A mentor should be actively involved in the discussion about the report though, ensuring that the end result is good. Greetings, Marcel On Jan 10, 2012, at 22:52 , Joe Schaefer wrote: > I don't know about you, but in the podlings I mentor I am subscribed > to most if not all of the mailing lists and try to read the bulk of > it all. I could easily write status reports for them if it was my > responsibility to do so, and for the initial 6 months would prefer > that mentors showed their podlings and their fellow mentors what can > be done with a properreport before passing that duty along to the PPMC. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:47 PM >> Subject: Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings >> >> I like the idea of mentors being expected to signoff on the wiki just >> to show that they are paying attention, but i also agree that it might >> be useful to have along with the poddling reports to have comments >> from the mentors. So how about doing both? Just extend the mentor >> signoff section to include comments so a poddling report is the >> poddling comments, mentor comments about whats going on and what >> they'd like to see the poddling doing in the next months and a signoff >> from all active mentors. >> >> Or Joe are you saying that we should scrap the poddling comments bit >> entirely? I think its useful to get a quick overview of whats going on >> and it gets them used to the TLP board report requirement. >> >> ...ant >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >>> Lame. I would actually like to see mentors WRITING the reports >>> at least for the first 6 months to a year, then going to sign-off >>> on the wiki. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> >>>> To: general@incubator.apache.org >>>> Cc: Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> >>>> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 1:23 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Small but otherwise happy podlings >>>> >>>> On 1/9/2012 11:40 AM, Upayavira wrote: >>>>> Regarding attrition of mentors, it was discussed having mentors >>>> 'sign' >>>>> the board report for their podling. Could that be encouraged, and >> used >>>>> as a sign of minimum 'activity' for a mentor? >>>> >>>> How about simply sign off on podling-dev@? Even if it is "Thanks >> for >>>> drafting this! No edits from me." >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
