<div dir="ltr">Jody:<div><br></div><div>Using a motion makes sense to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Landon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am not sure we would want to put mentors on the spot with the "discretion to put a project on inactive status". Making a motion keeps communication clear, and gives us something formal to report to the board.</div><div><br></div><div>Right now we are a pretty informal committee, but we can introduce more procedures if it would help provide guidance. Mentors are in the best position (as our contact point with a new project) to make such a motion. I would at least like to try using a motion to "inactivate" a project a couple of times (to see if it works) before making it into a formal procedure. </div><div>--</div><div>Jody<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Landon Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com" target="_blank">sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'll reach out to the OTB folks again...but I'd like to make a formal proposal that Mentors have the discretion to put a project on "inactive" status after 3 months of little or no contact.<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Landon</div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Landon Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com" target="_blank">sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Incubation Committee:<br><br>What happens when we get an inactive or unresponsive project in incubation? <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Currently nothing! </div><span><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>It seems to be a shame to have other projects waiting for an incubation mentor for months or years while another project isn't moving forward in the incubation process.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I have tried to offset this a bit by moving "incubating projects" to the bottom of the home page. We could move them off the home page completely. Or if you like we could keep a "new projects" bubble on the home page for projects in there first year.</div><div><br></div><div>The motivation for this is projects getting their initial benefit of joining OSGeo in the form of publicity / marketing due to placement. This was enough for the initial parties interested in GeoServer incubation to "drop out" and leave others to do the work. I am not sure if other projects have a similar experience when joining OSGeo?</div><span><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Is there a way we can remedy this? For example: Put an incubation project on "inactive" status after a certain number of weeks without communication to the mentor (or actual progress on incubation tasks). Once the project reconnects with the mentor, they can be taken off inactive status. The mentor can then decide to work again with the project, or we could put the project back on the waiting list.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>In a PSC setting we have up front that members that are inactive for 6 months will be dropped, and can reapply when they have time.</div><span><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I bring this up because I haven't heard from the OTB folks in quite a while, even after sending a couple of e-mail messages. I'd rather mentor another willing project while I wait for them to move forward.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Shucks, I just updated them in my slides to "active" status since the last edit was in August.</div><span><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Please share your thoughts. I'm just putting the idea on everyone's radar.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I think I would be much more comfortable with you, as mentor, putting the project on "hold" status. You are our bridge to that community - and if incubation is not on their radar (or priority) then you are in position to notice.</div><div><br></div><div>I note that we are a software foundation and are very sensitive to project release schedule. We completely understand a project getting stuck making a release for months (years?) at a stretch.</div><div><br></div><div>But yeah a simple status update "we are busy making release X" would be a kindness.</div><div><br></div><div>We can respect a development team as volunteers, but we must also respect your availability/energy as a volunteer :)</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jody</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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