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From: "Franklin, Matthew B." <mfranklin@mitre.org>
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Subject: RE: Shepherds for podling reports
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgardler@opendirective.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:24 AM
>To: general@incubator.apache.org
>Subject: Re: Shepherds for podling reports
>
>On 2 May 2012 10:19, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitting@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ross Gardler
>> <rgardler@opendirective.com> wrote:
>>> This is a good idea. I have signed up.
>>
>> Excellent, thanks!
>>
>>> I only ask you bear one thing in mind. Some months active people here
>>> have lots of their own podlings reporting, which takes quite a bit of t=
ime
>>> if done diligently. When assigning shepherd each month please bear in
>>> mind how many reports they are already signing off on.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> How about we start with an approximation that being a mentor of one of
>> the reporting podlings is equivalent to reviewing the reports of three
>> other podlings? We can tweak that down the line based on experience.
>
>+1
>
>Looking a little further forward i.e. not suggesting this initial
>small step should be transformed into a larger step but rather looking
>at what the next small step might be...
>
>I'd like to revisit the idea of grouping projects, e.g. big data,
>content, semantic, social etc. I imagine that people willing to be
>Shepherds will also have specific areas of interest. I imagine that
>shepherds would get more value from their time, and projects would get
>more cross-community feedback, if try to match shepherds to projects.
>For example, as a mentor on Wookie I'm interested in the progress of,
>and potential for collaboration with, Wave. My interest isn't
>sufficiently strong for me to dive into the dev list, but I'd
>certainly be willing to help the IPMC and myself by Shepherding that
>projects reports periodically.

The only (small) issue with bucketing podlings is what do we do when one fi=
ts in more than one category?  I think the idea would be useful in general,=
 so long as we clearly define the rules for cross-cutting projects (ie they=
 exist in both, they choose one, etc)

>
>Ross
>
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