On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Christian Grobmeier > <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I really don't object, but when the podling has graduated, they don't >> have such a reminder. >> >> What I am trying to say: the podling gets an reminder. It should be >> possible to just write this report without nagging. If they don't do >> it, it's a signal that "something went wrong". Now if you nag, >> somebody would do it finally. But it would no longer reflect if people >> actually care on the project or just want to make these e-mails stop. > > Please have mercy upon me. I'm the chair. I'm responsible for a > complete report. I found it labor intensive to check for all the > reports, and to manually nag the laggards. If it makes you feel > better, you could view this as my personal tool to automate a task > that I have to do anyway.
I have mercy. Do whatever you think fits best to you. In my opinion constant nagging is not necessary - "did not report" does the job as well as this line is a report as well; if a project constantly fails report to report its more a matter to retirement than to play kindergardener. Again, I do not object. Just wanted to give a you my thoughts. Cheers >> >> Of course, some Mentors nag when a report is not done. Finally it does >> also reflect on the Mentors. >> >> That said, i am no opposed if somebody would enable that feature, but >> on the other hand i think it is good as it is now. >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I see how I could arrange for Marvin or someone like him to bug >>> podlings until they actually deliver a report if they are due in the >>> cycle. >>> >>> To enable this, I'll add a >>> >>> [ ] Add an X between the brackets when the report is complete. >>> >>> to the template. >>> >>> This could be taken to gentle reminders to individual mentors. >>> >>> Would anyone find this sort of thing objectionable? >>> >>> Now that I've figured out the MoinMoin XMLRPC api, I am positively >>> dangerous. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
