Hi, I’ve just taken a look at the last six months mentors report signoff. There been 196 sign offs out of 331, giving a sign off rate of about 60%. I think we can do better than that.
As shown previously there's a strong correlation between mentors missing report signoff and absent mentors, with 3 reports in a row not being signed off generally being a very good indication that the mentor is missing. There’s currently 37 mentors how have missed at least 2 signoffs in a row (as I only looked at 6 month data it’s unknown who in this list has missed 3 signoffs, I would guess 1/2). The whimsey tool currently seems to be broken [1] (I raised a JIRA to fix) due to the report format change to markdown. So how can we get the sign off rate up? - We could do what we did a years or so again and ask all mentors who have missed 3 reports in a row if they have the time to continue to mentor a project. - Encourage podlings to report non active mentors (there a question in the report about this, but some podlings may be reluctant to report inactive mentors) - Encourage mentors to step down if they don’t have the cycles to mentor. There’s no shame in this and in doing so you're helping the podling. - Encourage mentors to vote on reports. Other than just saying that are there any ideas on how to do this? We can use more stick e.g if miss 3 reports in a row and you’re automatically removed OR we’ll not accept a graduation proposal with mentors listed as as PMC members who have not signed off 80% or more of reports, but that may not be the best way to motivate people. Being a mentor has few rewards other than satisfaction of doing job well, or in some cases recognition and ASF membership. Thanks, Justin 1. https://whimsy.apache.org/incubator/signoff.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
