On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:36AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > > wrote: > >> ...who else thinks the movement towards empowering > >> PPMCs and making IPMC very much like the board makes sense?... > > > > How is that different from the status quo where a podling with active > > mentors can have their releases +1ed by their mentors, requiring > > minimal interaction with the IPMC? > > I think it is more of a bias issue. IOW, today it seems that the default bias > of IPMC is to consider itself a final authority (or a gatekeeper) on podling > releases. We need to break that bias and make it so that it is truly a safety > net, rather than a gatekeeper. > > IOW, I'd like the release traffic on general@ to ONLY consist of [NOTICE] > emails, not [VOTE].
We perhaps are observing the well known phenomena called self-selection bias [1] And it seems to me that the simplification and better clarification of the incubation guidelines might be exactly what's needed to prevent a bureaucratism outbreak. As well as the situation when ppl express their expectations as a law-of-the-land (even from best intentions). Cos
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