On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:24 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks like there’s a pretty big shortage of shepherds for this month’s > report. Is that a concern?
It's not a concern -- it's a blessing. The shepherd institution needs to die. There's been a shepherd shortage for years. What happened this month is that I took a bunch of people who were effectively inactive out of the shepherd rolls, so their absence is more obvious at the top of the report. The expectation that it is shepherds who review and comment on podling reports, rather than Mentors, is harmful. Furthermore, shepherds do not fulfill their original purpose of preventing problem podings from falling through the cracks. That problem is more effectively addressed by having the Report Manager flag podlings who have failed to turn in a signed-off report for 2 months running. For those who value cross-podling feedback, the best opportunity for that is to comment on the DRAFT report, spawning rich conversations on general@incubator. I'll be sending out that DRAFT next Monday. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
