Offlist, I've heard both Gary and Hyrum are out of town. I'll write up something, but I will need the community to review it.
Thx, -g On Jun 5, 2012 7:16 AM, "Hyrum K Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: > +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/ >
