On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Some time back we moved to having 3 mentors, which had the positive of more > hands and enough binding votes, but the downside of no single person "on the > hook" for a podling's reporting and progress towards graduation. > > Should we appoint one of the mentors at the start to be the "chair" of the > PPMC, in the same way as a full project? I would see them as responsible for > ensuring the podling is reporting, and that all of the mentors are engaged > and signing off the reports. > > As the podling matures, this role could be transitioned to the person who > will be nominated as the chair of the project after it graduates, if they are > ready for that. > > What do others think?
I think appointing a chair in the early stages is likely to work against building a community of peers. I think that establishing a chair once community has self-organised would be a good idea. Robert (who thinks that we need to introduce more defined stages as steps towards graduation) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
