Re: GSoC Mentor vetting procedure

2012-03-19 Thread Nóirín Pluincéid
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > And for Podlings?  Do this in their own dev list, where mentors can be > counted on to raise any issues?  Or send them all to the IPMC general > list? I think an ACK from the PPMC is more meaningful in that case. N

Re: GSoC Mentor vetting procedure

2012-03-18 Thread Nóirín Pluincéid
On Mar 18, 2012 7:48 PM, "Luciano Resende" wrote: > > If we step back, what's the main issue we are trying to solve here ? Mentors should have the backing of the PMC responsible for the project their student is working on - because we've promised that to Google, and because we need to know that i

Re: GSoC Mentor vetting procedure

2012-03-18 Thread Nóirín Pluincéid
I'm not ok with that. I think it's important to vet mentors better than we have in the past--I know that it pushes some extra work onto the PMCs and mentors, but if we're going to keep asking for the number of projects we've had in the past, the admins can't do all the work. And as we get bigger an

Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Nóirín Pluincéid
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:01 AM, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: > Am So, 18.03.2012, 12:01 schrieb Sally Khudairi: >> Has anything been sent to annou...@apache.org in the >> past? > > Not that I know. Ross, Noirin, any of the other past GSoC admins? > AFAIR, no. I think at the moment committers@ is more a