On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:02 PM Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > General section looks grand. > > > > We have a few projects unreported, DataFu, ODF Toolkit, OpenAz. > > > > I know a bit about Datafu which has been very quiet for some time. > > > > Who knows more about the others? > > > > Andrei, Konstantin, Suresh are the respective shepherds? Any thoughts? > > We should feel good about the content of the report for this month -- it > meets or exceeds our usual standards. However, we've had a few process > glitches here at the end. > > * The report was filed with the Board on Tuesday -- one day early. > * The report was sent to board@apache and committed to the Board's > agenda > in svn, but private@incubator has not received a copy. > * The version of the report filed with the Board contains changes which > were not added to the wiki version. > These last two to me are pretty bad. Especially since I'm sitting in on a long drawn out discussion on a TLP where we have board members accusing PMC and committers of said TLP doing things behind peoples backs (no, not the incubator). Considering this is Ted's first month as VP I'm going to assume this was purely him being a n00b at submitting the report. > * I neglected to let Ted know that he should mark the wiki as "FINAL" > before submitting to the Board. > * At least one Mentor signoff was added to the wiki after the report was > filed. > * OpenAZ just submitted a report moments ago. > > I don't want OpenAZ to feel as though their report is unwanted, so I'm > going > to take action to ensure that the Board sees it. However... > > The IPMC should not encourage podlings to file late reports. > Agreed, though I feel like we've had this discussion before and I ended up on the losing side of it. > > First, the Board expects the Incubator to review podling reports, not just > forward them blindly. When reports are late, Mentors, shepherds, and > community members are not fully able to take part in the review process -- > including raising objections about what's in the report if necessary. > > Second, we have a shortage of people who are willing to work on > coordinating > the Incubator's report. Adding to our workload with a bunch of last minute > changes is unhelpful. > Good news at least, I'm back walking up right and most other issues are clearing off my plate so I should be able to help out again with the upcoming report. > > The alternative is simply to encourage podlings to file a report next month > rather than file late. Skipping one month is not a big deal. For TLPs, > the > Board has exactly the same preference -- file next month rather than at the > last minute, because last minute filings do not allow sufficient time for > review. > > To clean up this month's report, I will take the following actions later > this evening. > > 1. Add the changes from the filed version of the report to the wiki. > 2. Review the OpenAZ report to ensure that its format is consistent with > the rest of the report, add them to the podling summary, double check > the narrative, etc. > I've taken care of formatting for OpenAZ. Wiki's being super slow though. > 3. Check for any other Mentor signoffs, etc. added after the report was > filed. > 4. Mark the wiki as final. > 5. Commit the modifications to the Board agenda. Since I'm taking great > care to make sure things get done right and no Board member has yet > remarked on the Incubator's report, I trust that the Board and the IPMC > Chair will tolerate my overstep. > 6. Forward the final version of the report to private@incubator. > > Thanks again to everyone who has contributed towards another strong report > from the Incubator this month -- I'm confident that we'll meet the same > standards next month but with smoother running. > You would think for a guy with such dedication to getting the board report right, he'd be on the IPMC. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
