> On Mar 8, 2018, at 4:51 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 07/03/18 23:24, Julian Hyde wrote: >> I’m a mentor of a new podling, Druid. I would like to help them get set up, >> e.g. create mailing lists, create git repos. I tried to use >> https://selfserve.apache.org/ <https://selfserve.apache.org/> for these, but >> it only allows officers (i.e. PMC chairs). >> >> How is this supposed to work? Is the podling supposed to log INFRA tickets >> for everything? Am I supposed to nag the IPMC chair for everything? Or >> should I reach out to friends who happen to be PMC chairs? >> >> The red tape is getting me down. > > Having to send one e-mail to ask for help is hardly red-tape.
Quite a few emails, actually. I’ve already been in conversation with John Ament to get the mailing lists, and Luciano Resende made a few suggestions, including using selfserve.apache.org <http://selfserve.apache.org/>. The advice to podlings is “ask your mentors” but this mentor is finding himself frustrated - no clear guidelines what to do, and when I discover options I don’t have enough karma. selfserve.apache.org <http://selfserve.apache.org/> makes sense for top-level projects - which, by definition, have at least one officer - but not for podlings. The advice for podlings should be to email general@incubator.a.o <mailto:general@incubator.a.o> for all resources. Their mentors are in most cases as powerless as they are. > If you provide a list of what is required - or a pointer to an existing > list - I'll put in the requests for you. Thanks for the offer to help. But acting as middle-man I’m just slowing things down - so I’m going to ask them to email general@incubator.a.o <mailto:general@incubator.a.o> directly. Julian
