Hi Alan... On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com>wrote:
> Thanks for replying with a thoughtful response. > > Jukka put forth the idea of shepherds as a proposal. I was merely > replying to that proposal with my own considered ideas. > > I am encouraged about the enthusiasm but I feel that it blurs the > responsibility of the mentor. Shepherding the shepherds of a podling, i.e. > mentors, seems to me like the wrong way to go. It does add process. If > one carefully re-reads posts to this thread there's all sorts of extra > complexity being considered such as groupings of podlings and clearly > defining the rules for cross-cutting projects, etc. Not that this is > what's going to finally be adopted. > > Incubation is confusing enough as it is. > > Sprinkling more process, roles, and bureaucracy is not the solution to, my > mind, mentors who need to be politely pinged. This is just my humble > opinion. > > With that said, the shepherds have my sincere best wishes and I am happy > to cooperate for those podlings where I am mentor. > > Thanks again for your kind reply. > You still have a point, but lets give it a try and adjust the idea along the way :), maybe come up with another idea if this didn't work out > > > Regards, > Alan > > > On May 5, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > > > Hi Alan > > > > For sure your point may be valid, but the whole point, if you read the > > whole thread from the beginning, which I am sure you did, you will notice > > that Jukka mentioned that this is a start and will assess the effort and > > the whole plan after giving it sometime. > > > > And actually having other people looking into reports, from one side that > > will help mentors and from the other side it is as mentioned by Alex a > > fresh eye, who can poke around and ask questions or even provide more > help. > > > > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com > >wrote: > > > >> > >> On May 5, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> > >>> If you don't want to be a Shepherd, don't sign up. > >> > >> Yeah, I get that part. > >> > >>> The board asked us > >>> to do a better job of reviewing reports and detecting mentor > >>> deficiencies. > >> > >> I get that too. > >> > >>> This is a plan to accomplish that. > >> > >> My opinion about the plan stands. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Alan > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Thanks > > - Mohammad Nour > > ---- > > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep > moving" > > - Albert Einstein > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
