On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > Fellow mentors, > > There was a conversation at ApacheCon about the Incubator. I'll leave it to > the other participants to champion the particular parts that they are > passionate about, but I was particularly concerned with mentor > disengagement, and suggestions for improving it. > > A mentor's role is to help a project learn the ropes at the ASF, and that > mentor might not necessarily be deeply versed in the particular technology > that the podling works with. As such, it can frequently be the case that the > mentor becomes disengaged from the daily conversation of the lists, and > eventually with the entire process.
I think mentors have two responsibilities. You've mentioned the biggest one, but there's also a complementary one: the responsibility of bringing the insight into how the project is doing back to the IPMC. > As a means of refocusing the mentors' efforts, and keeping them engaged, I'd > like to encourage each mentor (or group of mentors) to consider writing a > running report (ie, evolving, updated every quarter) based on > https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html > where they evaluate each point on the maturity model, as a path towards > graduation. This gives a concrete target, and a lens through which to view > the podling's progress towards that target. +1 this will definitely help with both responsibilities. But, I've got to wonder: as long as it is just a suggestion what's to compel a mentor to actually spend quite a bit of time on doing that? Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
