Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/5/2011 8:11 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: I'd rather do this using a special group that students are members of. That way they can keep their accounts if they are voted in as committers later. That makes sense. It would be nice to have something a little more in your face, but I suppose the

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 05.10.2011 16:51, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 10/5/2011 4:23 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >> While it seems like a good idea to involve the PMCs some more I think that >> we should, in >> addition, require accounts created for students to be marked as such. > I think this is a good idea. A simple su

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/5/2011 4:23 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: While it seems like a good idea to involve the PMCs some more I think that we should, in addition, require accounts created for students to be marked as such. I think this is a good idea. A simple suffix like _tmp would be a clear message to all, inclu

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > ...While it seems like a > good idea to involve the PMCs some more I think that we should, in addition, > require accounts > created for students to be marked as such Absolutely - I think both things are needed. -Bertrand

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 05.10.2011 11:48, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >> ...In the past we allowed every committer to be a GSoC mentor. This is only >> problematic with past >> students that still have Apache accounts but have never been voted in as >> committers

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
On 5 October 2011 10:48, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >> ...In the past we allowed every committer to be a GSoC mentor. This is only >> problematic with past >> students that still have Apache accounts but have never been voted in as >> commi

Re: DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
On 5 October 2011 10:48, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Never mind, did it myself, will fill out GSoC stuff later: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/board-reports/board-report_2011_10.txt We don't do them in SVN, we do them in the CMS. I didn't include the link originally as there was a backlog

Re: DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Never mind, did it myself, will fill out GSoC stuff later: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/board-reports/board-report_2011_10.txt Uli On 05.10.2011 11:39, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Can you commit this to SVN please? > > On 05.10.2011 11:30, Ross Gardler wrote: >> Below is my draft board repo

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > ...In the past we allowed every committer to be a GSoC mentor. This is only > problematic with past > students that still have Apache accounts but have never been voted in as > committers. So we either > have to restrict mentors to be PMC me

Re: DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Can you commit this to SVN please? On 05.10.2011 11:30, Ross Gardler wrote: > Below is my draft board report, can people please look it over and > expand on any parts as appropriate. In particular we could do with > some numbers on GSoC. > > GSoC > > > GSoC went well overall, although there w

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ulrich Stärk
IIRC the discussion was not so much about how to choose and screen mentors but what we recommend projects how to handle their student's access to SCM. In the past we allowed every committer to be a GSoC mentor. This is only problematic with past students that still have Apache accounts but have

DRAFT boad report

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
Below is my draft board report, can people please look it over and expand on any parts as appropriate. In particular we could do with some numbers on GSoC. GSoC GSoC went well overall, although there was one serious issue regarding a mentor who was approved but is not a committer. This situa

Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Ross Gardler
The board report is due in a couple of weeks. I would like to have the issue with vetting mentors wrapped up so that we can report the solution. I know there were discussions on this list. Did we get as far as being able to make recommendations on how to improve the vetting process next year? Ros