Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Ferdinand Soethe
Thorsten Scherler wrote: I am not sure. If we do so then we should extend this to general absence or time constraints. I suppose we already to that. If s.o. comes forward telling us that he/she needs a bit more time to consider and issue, we would allow that would we not? Except when on

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Ferdinand Soethe
Thorsten Scherler wrote: Why not simply talk about 2/3 of the votes (those who choose to vote) within a reasonable time frame? Hey, good idea. I reckon that would remove the ambiguity about who has binding votes. Does that mean all votes are binding (committer as well)? Probably a

[Fwd: Re: Projects migrating from ASF Wiki to Google site - how does it work?]

2006-04-22 Thread Ross Gardler
Those proposing GSoc projects should not the below message. Ross Original Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Projects migrating from ASF Wiki to Google site - how does it work? And I can't stress enough: it should be clear to the students that they are merely

RE: [Fwd: Re: Projects migrating from ASF Wiki to Google site - how does it work?]

2006-04-22 Thread Gav....
I notice a couple of things on the code.google.com site:- quote Too Much of a Good Thing Apr 19, 2006 - Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Software Engineer Thanks to everyone for the enormous interest in participating in Summer of Code 2006. Due to the overwhelming response, we will stop accepting mentor

Re: [Fwd: Re: Projects migrating from ASF Wiki to Google site - how does it work?]

2006-04-22 Thread Ross Gardler
Gav wrote: I notice a couple of things on the code.google.com site:- quote Too Much of a Good Thing Apr 19, 2006 - Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Software Engineer Thanks to everyone for the enormous interest in participating in Summer of Code 2006. Due to the overwhelming response, we will stop

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley
Thorsten Scherler wrote: David Crossley escribi??: Ferdinand Soethe wrote: Wasn't that what the term active was meant to say in the first place: Active in terms of coming forward to cast a vote? I like your interpretation. I see activeness different then coming forward and

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Ross Gardler escribió: David Crossley wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: ... With respect to whether we define active or not, I prefer to do less admin work, not more. So I am in favour of removing the distinction. We should keep emeritus status. People should be able to opt to be emeritus or the

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Ross Gardler escribió: Errr there is no hidden agenda in there. David is a fantastic chair and has my full support in everything he does. I simply meant that I don't want to make the chairs job any harder than it already is. Just wanted to make that clear, the above sentence was quite

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Missing link: [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html Sorry. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo Antonio Gallardo escribió: Ross Gardler escribió: David Crossley wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: ... With respect to whether we define active or not, I prefer to do less admin work, not

[jira] Commented: (FOR-853) Links: using Jira to manage issues for next release

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-853?page=comments#action_12375841 ] David Crossley commented on FOR-853: Some other threads: Target version numbers in Jira http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11321309431 Using Jira and branches for Project

Re: [Proposal] remove active/inactive concept

2006-04-22 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Thorsten Scherler escribió: El vie, 21-04-2006 a las 16:31 +1000, David Crossley escribió: Ferdinand Soethe wrote: ... The term Active PMC members seems to cause confusion about who has a binding vote. It was intended to just clarify the Unanimous and 2/3 Majority situations, so

Re: Release Manager - RM

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: You mention scheduled releases. I recall that we had a big discussion about that topic and whether it was a good approach. Would someone please refer to that thread. Some days one finds it, some days not. These threads are close, but not quite what i was looking for.

Re: Release Manager - RM

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley
Gav wrote: -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 April 2006 5:37 PM To: dev@forrest.apache.org Subject: Re: Release Manager - RM Gav wrote: -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Manager - RM

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley
Thorsten Scherler wrote: David Crossley escribi??: Thorsten Scherler wrote: Why having a RM? One thing that I learned over the years in os development is that people feel more responsible for doing a job when their have officially the function or feel personal responsible for the

RE: Release Manager - RM

2006-04-22 Thread Gav....
-Original Message- From: David Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:05 PM To: dev@forrest.apache.org Subject: Re: Release Manager - RM Thorsten Scherler wrote: David Crossley escribi??: Thorsten Scherler wrote: Why having a RM? One thing

[jira] Commented: (FOR-767) Forrestbot webapp reports succesful even when there are broken links

2006-04-22 Thread Gavin (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-767?page=comments#action_12375847 ] Gavin commented on FOR-767: --- Looking at deploy.xml the build will fail if deploy is local :- target name=deploy.local unless=build.failed description=FB: Deploy to a local location

[jira] Created: (FOR-864) Link: Need FAQ to explain Cocoon's treatment of xsl:output etc.

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley (JIRA)
Link: Need FAQ to explain Cocoon's treatment of xsl:output etc. --- Key: FOR-864 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-864 Project: Forrest Type: Task Components: Documentation and website,

[jira] Created: (FOR-865) Add missing entries to status.xml to generate the changes list

2006-04-22 Thread David Crossley (JIRA)
Add missing entries to status.xml to generate the changes list -- Key: FOR-865 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-865 Project: Forrest Type: Task Components: Documentation and website, Core