On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right now, a shepherd assignment is a temporary job. It starts as the > reports for a cycle begin to come in, and it ends when the shepherd > feels that he or she has done what makes sense in terms of reporting > to the community and, in some cases, delivering some constructive > nudges to the projects. > > I've been thinking about an alternative, but it may not be popular.
Let me ask you this: what is this trying to achieve? What is our definition of success here? I guess the 'ideal world' of the incubator I'm picturing is the one where the structure is flat -- everybody's a mentor and there's also an 'Incubator VP' who acts just like a VP of any other project. Theoretically you could say that there needs to be an 'Incubator PMC' equivalent and that's what shepherds are -- but I'm not convinced this distinction is a useful one. Of course, this is coming from a guy who also believes that most of the time committers == PMC -- so perhaps it is the same bias talking. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
