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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:58:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: Graduation timeline: A reminder for project members, press and
 list observers
From: Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Ross Gardler
<rgardler@opendirective.com> wrote:
> Sent from my tablet
> On Oct 13, 2012 11:00 PM, "Kay Schenk" <kay.schenk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
> ?..
>
>>
>> It never occurred to me that any of them would have necessarily been
>> interested.
>
> The fact that it never occurred to anyone participating in the definition
> of the PMC membership is, in my opinion, a major failing of process which
> was designed to identify people with sufficient merit. I would have thought


Actually, I explicitly mentioned this, and more than once, in the
earlier phase of this process.

-Rob

> all of your active mentors have earned sufficient merit and should have
> been invited to join. Furthermore, at least on mentor indicated a desire to
> serve on the PMC, so there was no need for it to "occur" to anyone, it was
> explicit.
>
> This is the first time I've seen a PPMC fail nominate its active mentors as
> PMC members. There is a lesson in there for the community but it is no
> longer my place to convey what I think that lesson is (since my last mail
> was my last as a mentor)
>
> Ross