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 providing guidance and
knowledge to those going through the process.
> Date: Thu, 8 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 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 (Model 1), then fine.
>
> Cheers,
> -g
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > 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 they turn out to be a part of the long-term landcape, no
> > worries here. On the other hand, let me try to refine my idea of why they
> > should wither away.
> >
> > Model 1: The IPMC members supervise the podlings. This is
> > delegated/scaled/divided-and-conquered by the mentors, who are IPMC
> > members. Mentors supervise in addition coaching and guiding. If they do
> > this job correctly, we would not need shepherds. In support of this model,
> > I'll point out that we require mentors to be IPMC members. Why do we do
> > this, if mentoring is not part of the supervisory process?
> >
> > Model 2: The mentors are the good cops, exercising a light touch, so we
> > need some other IPMC members to perform supervision. Thus, shepherds. Greg,
> > if I'm messed up your logic here, please excuse me.
> >
> > When I serve on a non-I-PMC, I read every message on dev, user, and
> > private, and I try to pay some attention to commits. We don't ask shepherds
> > to do anything like that. I've always thought that we asked mentors to do
> > that.
> >
> > So, it seems to me, if we prefer model (2), we not only need shepherds, we
> > need to ask more of them. If we prefer model (1), we need to continue to
> > work to achieve a situation where every podling has a sufficiency of
> > active, supervising mentors -- and identifying people in the podlings who
> > have earned that role is one way to do it.
>
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