This is a suggestion that has come up in the past, and the typical counter-argument is that this is something the chair needs to provide themselves.
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > Sent from a mobile device, please excuse mistakes and brevity > On 15 Jun 2013 16:53, "Alan Cabrera" <a...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> >> >> Problem: podlings are confused on where to go when there's a problem. >> >> Cause: we seem to collect/handle/organize problems in an ad hoc manner > and sometimes mentors are the problem. >> >> Solution: we create an elected Incubator Ombudsman. > > From now on I'm only going to look at solutions in the context of the > issues on the wiki page. If a proposal doesn't apply to one or more issues > I'm not interested. > > In this case... > > The only problem that would need an ombudsmen is ISSUE 01 (inactive > mentors). Mentors should always know where to go to solve a problem (we > have specialist committees for pretty much every issue that will arise). If > mentors are inactive then ISSUE 01 is in play. > > The current place to go is the IPMC. At this point ISSUE 03 may well come > into play. > > The idea of an Ombudsman overlaps with my earlier proposal for a > psuedo-board in the IPMC. Its also similar to both suggested solutions for > ISSUE 03 in the wiki. > > For these reasons I suggest the Ombudsmen proposal has merit. > > I also suggest that this ombudsmen could be the organisation responsible > for acting if a podling (or a pTLP, if the experiment shows merit in this > model) is failing. > > As always the details needs to be ironed out but since the proposal > directly addresses ISSUE 03 I would like to see it explored. I especially > like that it complements my pTLP experiment which is designed to address > ISSUE 01 (but clearly your proposal is worth exploring even without that > potential advantage). > > Ross > >> >> >> Regards, >> Alan >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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