On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Alan Cabrera wrote: > I would prefer to use well known names for well known roles. Ombudsman is a > roll that's been around for quite a while and the person filling that role > for the ASF will be doing roughly the same thing as ombudsman in other > organizations. > > With that said, I will agree that if everything is running fine, the > ombudsman is pretty much watching Oprah re-runs. Hopefully we will all work > hard so this person will have the time to catch up. ;) > > However, I will point out that my proposal has come about from concrete > personal experience and the experiences that others have personally related > to me. I will also point out that it seems to me that those who are opposed > or, at best, lukewarm to the idea are well established and well connected > individuals in the ASF sphere.
+1. How should we "bless" our Ombudsmen? On private@? Do we have more than one? If so what is the limit? Regards, Dave > > > Regards, > Alan > > > > On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:50 PM, Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Why one would need an additional alias? Existing questions are sent to >> general@ or dev@community or (please add here), and one in the superhero >> role should timely answer them or facilitate an answer. [Complex question] >> tag in the subject line should be sufficient, or just no answer to some >> mail for 72 hours. >> >> If titles are important, we can simply assign nice titles to guys who >> answer to 10 of these complex issues. >> >> Maybe some discussion on facilitation means can be useful to avoid calling >> the guy impolite. >> >> I have one particular problem to deal with. New projects which come outside >> of Apache, cannot find Apache champion. The request is too wide to reach >> someones ear. One possibe way to address it is to assign an eco-champion to >> the new project who performs the project evaluation. The champion comes >> from the Apache project of the same area. Sometimes we may end up with >> community merges by going this way. >> 19.06.2013 3:03 пользователь "Ross Gardler" <rgard...@opendirective.com> >> написал: >> >>> On 18 June 2013 23:53, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> Why so much reluctance to just honor the request such as it is >>>> instead of looking for different ways of modifying it to taste? >>> >>> ISSUE 03 at work I think - perhaps it is my fault for thinking aloud >>> about how the role might also help solve a different problem from the >>> one it was originally designed to solve. Maybe I set the wrong tone >>> for discussion. Lets forget that. >>> >>> Please just go ahead and do it the way you are suggesting. There is no >>> harm. The worst that can happen is someone sends an email to the alias >>> and there is no response. The next worst is that nobody ever uses it. >>> In either case we will eventually reverse this step. >>> >>> And please also go ahead with your "bill of rights" - I'll comment in >>> that thread in a moment. >>> >>> Ross >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
