If the idea of the 'Ombudsman' is sort of like an 'elder
Statesman' role as well, then I may be interested...
On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:44:14PM -0700, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> I don't think you have that problem yet -- I don't see a mob banging on the
> doors of this thread crying, "Me! Me!".
>
> Personally I suggest KISS. Set up the alias, have it target 2 people,
> advertise it on the web site, move on. This email took me 200% as long to
> type
> than it would have taken me to set up the actual alias...
>
> ssh -t hermes.apache.org sudo -u apmail tee
> \~apmail/.qmail-incubator-ombudsm\{a,e\}n <<<
> $'w...@apache.org\ndanie...@apache.org\n'
>
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