On 25 November 2014 at 22:05, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering what everyone thought about the current shepherd program? > > Honestly, I think this is one of the most undervalued and underutilized > program > we have around here. > Seen from the POW of one who is new around here, it seems a bit like having a title for the sake of a title. I understand and value the functions of both "champion" and "mentor" and of course also the "iPMC". But I fail to see the big difference between being an official shepherd, and just helping a project. I am sure I overlooked some of the finer differences, or maybe the titles have just grown out of history. I am willing to learn ! rgds jan i. > > It seems like we have some idle shepherds, who maybe don't have the > > bandwidth to help out all the time. What would everyone thing if we > marked > > idle shepherds w/ max_podlings = 0 so that they don't get assigned? > > I guess I have to ask -- how do we know that a shepherd is inactive? How > do we know that a lack of a shepherding comment is due to the guy > not doing anything as opposed to nothing standing out. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
