>-----Original Message----- >From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] >Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:24 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports > >On 2 May 2012 10:19, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ross Gardler >> <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >>> This is a good idea. I have signed up. >> >> Excellent, thanks! >> >>> I only ask you bear one thing in mind. Some months active people here >>> have lots of their own podlings reporting, which takes quite a bit of time >>> if done diligently. When assigning shepherd each month please bear in >>> mind how many reports they are already signing off on. >> >> Good point. >> >> How about we start with an approximation that being a mentor of one of >> the reporting podlings is equivalent to reviewing the reports of three >> other podlings? We can tweak that down the line based on experience. > >+1 > >Looking a little further forward i.e. not suggesting this initial >small step should be transformed into a larger step but rather looking >at what the next small step might be... > >I'd like to revisit the idea of grouping projects, e.g. big data, >content, semantic, social etc. I imagine that people willing to be >Shepherds will also have specific areas of interest. I imagine that >shepherds would get more value from their time, and projects would get >more cross-community feedback, if try to match shepherds to projects. >For example, as a mentor on Wookie I'm interested in the progress of, >and potential for collaboration with, Wave. My interest isn't >sufficiently strong for me to dive into the dev list, but I'd >certainly be willing to help the IPMC and myself by Shepherding that >projects reports periodically.
The only (small) issue with bucketing podlings is what do we do when one fits in more than one category? I think the idea would be useful in general, so long as we clearly define the rules for cross-cutting projects (ie they exist in both, they choose one, etc) > >Ross > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
