The community is growing with more individuals getting interested in contributing to the project. This definitely brings an extra bit of workload for committers “Shepherds” but at the same time more developers eventually leads more adoptability across organization and enterprises.
I am not sure if this is easy to find an immediate solution but would really like some sort of resolution on this. If shepherd is busy, what else can be done for a low priority but a genuine issue. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Joris Van Remoortere < joris.van.remoort...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mesos developers, > > You may have noticed some churn in Jira recently around the shepherd > assignment. Specifically, we have unassigned the shepherds for a bunch of > projects. We did this in order to get a better sense of which projects are > being actively shepherded versus having gone stale, and to identify for > which projects we need to find a new shepherd who has sufficient time to > dedicate to it. > > This is not a statement that the un-assigned tickets are not important, > rather, we want to ensure that the people working on them have a shepherd > with sufficient resources. > > We ask that you communicate (and agree!) with your shepherd before > assigning them in Jira, so that they are not surprised when you reviews > start getting posted. > > The benefit for the developer community should be that it will be more > clear when working on a ticket whether there are sufficient resources in > the community to iterate on it in a timely manner. > > Joris >
