[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: [EDP] Mentors Council or Coaching Squad?

[Jeff McAffer <jeff_mcaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Merks wrote:
> Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
> > Now I'm confused - I recall (and I copied into the minutes) that at 
> > the last AC meeting you were against having the AC do this mentoring 
> > role because mentoring was too process-oriented and not enough about 
> > architecture. Perhaps you meant that the AC should do architecture 
> > mentoring and that some other body should do process mentoring?
> As I said, my reaction was: "Aren't we supposed to be doing this 
> already? Is the AC being judged as doing its given role so poorly right 
> now that there is a need to create a whole new group to fix the 
> problem?"   I think the answers seem to be yes and yes at this point...

We are likely nit picking at this point but what the heck...  The part 
that confuses me is the conjoining of "the AC is not mentoring" and "we 
need to create a new group".  My understanding of the original proposal 
was to have the AC do the mentoring.  So the answers "should" be yes and 
no.

Few people I have spoken to have opposed having mentors.  There are 
pragmatic issues sure but it appears to be a fundamentally good idea. 
As such, people should not oppose mentoring on the basis that it 
currently appears to need a new group, they should oppose the AC 
declining to take on that role.

Jeff