On 1/23/15, 1:34 PM, "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>A good mentor is a guide, not a manager. > >The proposals might seem top down, but when executed correctly, they are >not. OK, I’ll accept that, but if executed correctly, the current Incubator probably doesn’t need changing either. IMO, it is hard to find a lot of really dedicated volunteers. So your choices are to work the really good ones really hard, try to “manage” other volunteers, or try to find a way to work without really dedicated volunteers. In my experience, the more you try to control and check on these other volunteers, the faster they will go away. Apache has a really great system of accepting code from volunteers with limited time. You don’t have to make a time commitment, just occasional code commitment. Can the ASF find a way to teach culture via volunteers with limited time? Probably. That’s why I mentioned the notion of having more ASF people involved in a project, but not as the initial PMC. Real communities teach their culture by hanging out around the newcomers, but no one person is signed up to do the teaching. They do it by having lots of villagers watching the newbies checking on what the newbies are doing and saying when they can. That’s hard to do on email, but if certain newbie efforts require a shout out outside their list, then it is easier for this larger band of villagers to hear that something important is going on. -Alex
