She or he must possess developmental editing skills. Must be creative, imaginative.
It is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1974.
He does it beacuse he fears a hurricane. The excerpt that supports this part is:
Then up and spake an old Sailòr, Had sailed to the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
For I fear a hurricane.