Hi,

I can volunteer to do RM for next month.  I can also do the shepherding
report for two podlings as usual.  The only reason I missed updating the
page last month was due to some weather issues/power issues near me.  By
the time I got to the file with my results, the email had already gone out.

- John


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> >> I plan on leaving May to someone else, though. :)
> >
> > Yup. The question is -- how can we strongly encourage
> > folks to step up? If we don't see anybody volunteering
> > I'm all for creative ideas of I dunno... report manager
> > duty lottery (along the lines of jury duty lottery)..
>
> In my opinion, the answer is to make better use of our volunteer hours
> by replacing shepherd community assessments with autogenerated mailing
> list analysis to provide a rough measure of community health.
>
> The shepherd reports have value, but they come at too high a price.  I
> think we owe it to our volunteers to ensure that the time they invest
> yields the best possible return.
>
> If we cease attempting to recruit both shepherds AND a Report Manager
> for duty each month, I suspect that we will have less difficulty
> filling slots.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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