On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org > wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:05 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > ...*Note that since Mentors are appointed by the Incubator PMC at the > end of > > the acceptance process, they have no formal role until the proposal is > > accepted.... > > I don't think this is really useful, it seems to just cover edge cases > that we might as well explain on list if they happen. > > I suggest replacing both paragraphs that you list by this, or a > refined variant of it: > > "Three Mentors gives a quorum and allows a Podling more autonomy, so the > current > consensus is that three Mentors is a good number. Any experienced > Apache community > member can provide informal mentorship anyway, what's important is to make > sure > the podling has enough regularly available mentors to progress smoothly." > And frankly, nobody really has a formal role until the proposal is accepted. That is the point of acceptance ... it is the beginning of formality. Before then, there are really no rules (from Apache).
