[SoC] Mentorship Limits

[Jody Garnett]

I believe multiple people can request mentoring a project - selection of 
which mentor happens after?
Jody
> Folks,
>
> What do folks think about the number of projects a person can mentor?  It
> is my feeling that *normally* a person should only mentor one project to
> avoid the students not getting enough attention from mentors with too 
> much
> on the go.  But I don't feel this needs to be a hard and fast rule.
>
> Looking at the tentative assignments I see Wolf five projects.  Are there
> enough GRASS mentors to handle some of these?
>
> I also see Tim Keitt with two postgis projects.  Are there other postgis
> mentors?  I know of Mateusz, but he already has a GDAL project, and 
> didn't
> feel up to some of the more esoteric postgis stuff.
>
> I am listed with 3, but one is being turned over to Daniel, and one 
> will be
> dropped.
>
> Ian and Simone also have two, but there seem to be lost of java 
> mentors to
> spread these out a bit.
>
> I'm inclined to leave the final decision on mentors taking on multiple 
> students
> to the project PSCs.  But do think that five is too many unless Wolf is
> prepared to spend his summer doing little else.
>
> As far as I know we can still add additional mentors, so perhaps there 
> is a
> need to beat the bushes for some more GRASS mentors?
>
> Best regards,