On May 3, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote: >> Added my name, > > Great, thanks! > > Would you mind taking the role of "shepherdX" this month and giving a > closer look at Clerezza, Lucene.NET and Syncope? > >> but, haven't mentors already kind of volunteered for this by virtue that >> they are mentoring? > > Yes, they have. Each mentor should in any case have reviewed the > reports of their podlings and provided any required feedback. > > However, often mentors are "too close" to a project to tell whether > the report gives a good enough picture of the project status without > extra context. Also, there have been plenty of cases of absent or > otherwise busy mentors leaving podlings with little or no effective > review or feedback. > > For these reasons I think it's useful for at least one "outsider" from > within the IPMC to do a closer review of the podling report before we > forward it to the ASF board. If everything's fine, the mentors have > already done their job and the task of the shepherd becomes just to OK > the report and move on. If not, the shepherd should raise a flag for > the podling community, its mentors, or ultimately the IPMC to resolve.
This looks like a mind expanding activity. I added my name for a maximum of 2 per month. Thanks, Dave > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
