+1, though I understand that yesterday and today are UK holidays. (I'm travelling at the moment, and can review, but not contribute to, the report.)
-Hyrum On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Greg Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary: you wanna volunteer for the podling report this month? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:28 PM > Subject: June reports in two weeks > To: general <[email protected]> > > > Hi all, > > There's plenty of time still before the June reports [1] start flowing > in. As an early remainder to podlings starting to draft their reports, > here's how the IPMC saw your status as of the previous quarterly > report in March [2]: > > IP clearance: Openmeetings > No release: Bloodhound, Cordova, OpenOffice > Low activity: Kalumet, Kato > Low diversity: Bigtop, Etch, Isis, HCatalog, S4, Wave > Ready to graduate: Flume > > Has the situation in your podling changed over the last three months? > If not, what's your plan for improving the situation? Is there > anything for which you'd appreciate more help? > > I'm especially worried about Kato as it seems like the project has > more or less died even though the JSR 326 / Oracle trouble got finally > sorted out. Is it time to retire the project or can we hope for a > revival? > > I also wanted to start preparing for this reporting round in good time > by assigning shepherds [3] already now. Using a fuzzy algorithm based > on the available volunteers, their stated preferences, and the > podlings they're already mentoring, I came up with the following > initial assignments that I've also recorded on the wiki page: > > Benson Margulies - CloudStack, HCatalog, Kato > Dave Fisher - Bloodhound, Flume > Matt Franklin - Bigtop, Flex, Openmeetings > Matt Hogstrom - Cordova, OpenOffice.org > Jukka Zitting - Etch, Isis, S4 > Mohammad Nour - Kalumet > Ross Gardler - Wave > > Feel free to shuffle these around or ask for someone else to fill in > if you're expecting to be too busy for the extra reviews in early > June. Other IPMC members and interested observers, please jump in and > volunteer as extra shepherds if you'd like to help this effort. > > As discussed earlier, shepherds are not there to replace existing > mentors. If everything is going well with a project, the shepherd can > simply acknowledge a report and move on. If there are any relevant > questions that the report doesn't answer, the shepherd may ask the > podling and its mentors for more details. And finally if something > seems wrong, the shepherd should raise a flag for the mentors and the > rest of the IPMC to focus on. Most importantly, we need to be talking > *with* the podlings, not just *about* them, so especially any > constructive and encouraging feedback to them will be highly useful. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/June2012 > [2] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2012 > [3] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorShepherds > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
