On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
FWIW, I feel the same. I'd rather see 'did not report' and let the IPMC look for that pattern. Maybe just have your template generator default to DNR in the text? --tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
