Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, and Jukka picked up the gauntlet thrown down by the board and used the shepherds to turn the situation around. The resulting system does not feel like a finished product, and I suspect that the Finn in

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Prescott Nasser geobmx...@hotmail.com wrote: I don't know what it takes to become and IPMC member, but I kind of like the idea of having roles that don't require such formality (I may think too highly of the process and role), but still can be recognized as

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-09 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Empirically, Model 1 did not work. That's been tried over the past ten years. Yes, and Jukka picked up the gauntlet thrown down by the board and used the shepherds to turn the situation around. The resulting system does not feel

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-08 Thread Greg Stein
Empirically, Model 1 did not work. That's been tried over the past ten years. *shrug* ... whatever you want to do. I just wanted to speak up that you appeared to be conflating the mentor and shepherd roles (as they had been defined over the past couple months). If you *intend* to combine them

RE: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-08 Thread Prescott Nasser
Nov 2012 22:54:53 -0500 Subject: Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December From: gst...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Empirically, Model 1 did not work. That's been tried over the past ten years. *shrug* ... whatever you want to do. I just wanted to speak up

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-07 Thread Benson Margulies
2. We need the shepherds to compensate for mentor shortages in addition to discovering those. I disagree. In short, you are conflating mentors with IPMC Members. They serve *very* different roles. Greg, let me start by writing that I am not in some hurry to turn shepherds into pie. If

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ... 1. A number of people think that all mentors should have been signing all reports all along, so that changing the template as part of clarifying this is not a big deal. Sure. The mentors should be part of the

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to reaffirm his or her involvement in the podling... +1, and as Ross says this can just be

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: ...At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to reaffirm his or her involvement in the podling. Thus, instead of (at most) one mentor

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.orgwrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Reading all the remarks so far, I glean: 1. A number of people think that all mentors should have been signing all reports

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: However, the problem here isn't identifying inactive mentors (as seen earlier, we already have everything we need for that) but rather how to replace them. So far, apart from the shepherd model, we haven't seen too

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Bernd Fondermann bernd.fonderm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-05 Thread Benson Margulies
We vote in one of these people fairly regularly, and we've never rejected one yet as far as I recall. So I think that this solution has proved acceptable; the question is, how many of the podlings with a mentor shortage have a suitable candidate in them? I intend to find out. On Mon, Nov 5,

Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I want to thank all of you for the vote(s) of confidence in recommending me as the IPMC chair. While it's always possible that the Board will decline the suggestion, it doesn't seem too terribly presumptuous to start looking ahead. My goal is to continue along the path blazed by Jukka, and then,

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Marcel Offermans
On Nov 4, 2012, at 23:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to reaffirm his or her involvement in the podling. Thus, instead of (at most) one mentor signing

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Ross Gardler
My understanding of mentor sign off is that all active mentors sign off, not just one. Lack of sign off means the mentor has been busy elsewhere for that quarter and feels unqualified to signoff. So,whilst looking for absent mentors is good I'd suggest we already have a process in place and thus

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Benson Margulies
acting as a mentor that was never my understanding. if the result of this thread is to clarify this point, fine. On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: My understanding of mentor sign off is that all active mentors sign off, not just one. Lack of sign off

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Alan Cabrera
+1 I like the idea. We'll obviously need to update our docs. Regards, Alan On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: acting as a mentor that was never my understanding. if the result of this thread is to clarify this point, fine. On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Chris Douglas
+1; this matches my understanding. -C On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: My understanding of mentor sign off is that all active mentors sign off, not just one. Lack of sign off means the mentor has been busy elsewhere for that quarter and feels

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: I want to thank all of you for the vote(s) of confidence in recommending me as the IPMC chair. While it's always possible that the Board will decline the suggestion, it doesn't seem too terribly presumptuous to start

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Upayavira
The simple change that you seem to be suggesting is rather than having a space where mentors can add their names, add their names to the report, and expect them to sign +1 by it. This seems quite reasonable, making it a little more obvious that mentors at *supposed* to sign reports. It makes it

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Upayavira wrote on Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:48:28 +: Having said that, I personally would like to see some kind of separation between mentors and the incubator PMC. I think th PMC should be a smaller, more active group who take a more active interest in the incubator as it is, and perhaps

Re: Anticipating my reign of terror -- new idea for December

2012-11-04 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: At the bottom of the template for each podling's report, I'd like to have a space for each of the mentors, every month, to reaffirm his or her involvement in the podling. Thus, instead of (at most) one mentor