I'm interested in being a mentor at some point, though I'd prefer to help with a project in a domain I'm experienced with.
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 10:26, Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > From my podling experience, it's really hard for a new podling > project to find a mentor by himself, so sometime new podling project > just ask help in the mailing list. > The warm hearted mentors who response the mail will be put put into > the podling proposal, and we never ask them about if they have time to > perform the duty of mentor. > Maybe we can setup a reminder email once the mentor is adding to the > podling project to let him know about the role, duties, and how much > time he need to put into the Podling project. In this way, we may > reduce the inactive mentor situations in the future. > > But how much time do we need to spend for mentoring the project. From > my experience, there are some work for the project initial setup and > release mentoring, but other time,the mentor just need to keep an eye > on the project and response the question from Podling projects. But > it could be different from project to project, so please add your > comments here. > > BTW, it's hard for the podling project to ask for release checking as > there are only few IPMC members vote the release kit. If we talk about > the Mentor capacity, IMO we need to take this issue into > consideration. > > Willem Jiang > > Twitter: willemjiang > Weibo: 姜宁willem > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 3:18 PM Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We have a large number of IPMC members (280+). I wondering if any IPMC > members could indicate if they have any capacity/free cycles and a > willingness for mentoring projects. It looks like we are going to have a > number of inactive mentors step down in the near future and we may end up > with some podlings only having one or two mentors. Three mentors seems to > the the number that works best. > > > > Of course I understand it may have to be the right sort of project, but > I’m just trying the gauge the current mentor capacity of the incubator, so > if you think you could be a mentor if the right project came along then > please indicate it here. > > > > For IPMC members who are unable to be a mentor I’m curious to know what > the reasons are, I’m sure that “not having the time" is probably the number > one reason, but are is there any thing else stopping member (in particular > first time ones) from coming forward and volunteering? > > > > The mentor capacity we have may in the future have an impact on if and > how often we accept new podlings. I'd hate to turn away podlings, but if we > can’t effectively mentor them I’m not sure what else we can do. anyone have > any ideas? > > > > For myself currently I could only realistically mentor one more project. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
