Hi Marvin, Can anyone volunteer? Or only IPMC?
I'd like to volunteer to help you guys out next month. John On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Raphael Bircher <r.birc...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > Am 12.11.13 00:04, schrieb Marvin Humphrey: > > >> ==================== > >> > >> Podlings which did not receive shepherd reviews this cycle: > >> > >> Aurora > >> DeviceMap > >> Droids > >> Hadoop Development Tools > >> Knox > >> Open Climate Workbench > >> Ripple > >> Sentry > >> Storm > > > > So many not reviewed? Ok, I'm willing to take two text month if needed. > > Shepherd participation waxes and wanes. We ostensibly had all podlings > covered in that every one was assigned a shepherd, but four of our shepherd > volunteers didn't come through this cycle, including three stalwarts who we > have been able to rely on most of the time. > > I'm not sure how to solve this problem even if we get more volunteers and > spread the load out, because by the time we discover that a shepherd > didn't submit a review, it's too late for someone else to fill in. The > shepherd window with the current schedule is 4 days long (Thursday through > Sunday), because we need to leave time for people to respond to the > shepherd > comments before the report is filed. Doubling up shepherds would probably > make matters worse, because each would likely let the the other assignee > take > care of things. > > Maybe if we were to recruit enough volunteers that each shepherd had only > one > assignment per month, there would be less fatigue and we'd get higher > participation rates? > > Next month's cycle will have more podlings and we probably won't be able to > cover all of them with the available roster of volunteers. Your taking on > a > second assignment is much appreciated. But please don't burn out! You've > done a great job both last month with Olingo and this month with NPanday. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
