Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:43:11PM +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: With a lot of due respect Roy, I think the argument that unless one helps with infra one does not have a right to belly-ache is absurd. Not everyone is infra-savvy and/or infra-interested. I refuse to accept that not

Re: Is there a no graduate option?

2005-12-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/22/05, Thomas Dudziak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder whether there isn't another problem here: that of the (missing) oversight of the PMC that originally voted the project into incubation. For instance, while I'm on the DB PMC and voted e.g. Derby into incubation (just to pick an

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/23/05, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:01:14PM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: Incubator Graduation Check List --- [ ] Move svn repo from incubator to new location [ ] *** ? *** requests that infrastructure move

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/23/05, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If any ASF PMC believes it is in the best interest of the Foundation to accept a podling and they are willing to dedicate resources (people) - then anyone on the Incubator PMC has no standing to challenge that decision. When a PMC

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Erik Abele wrote: So nobody has the right but you do? Or how can your smack-down of the Tuscany proposal be interpreted? Because Tuscany was proposed to the incubator PMC (not another PMC) and I do have a

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
robert burrell donkin wrote: IMHO it would be better to ask pmc'er to vote not for a passive sponsorship but an active promise to commit resources to provide oversight for the podling. When asked to vote for a new podling on the WS PMC, I never understood a +1 to mean something different?

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Sam Ruby
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Erik Abele wrote: So nobody has the right but you do? Or how can your smack-down of the Tuscany proposal be interpreted? Because Tuscany was proposed to the incubator PMC (not another

Re: Growth

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On 12/21/2005 7:22 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Folks, Right now any PMC can automatically ok projects into incubator. How about we change that rule? So that the only pmc that can approve a proposal is the incubator PMC.

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Sam, it's not just a question of content and significance. It's also a question of fitting with existing projects and check to make sure that the project still adheres to the the charter of the PMC. These are better checked by outsiders (Incubator PMC), since the insiders (WS PMC) may be biased.

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Erik Abele wrote: On 21.12.2005, at 21:57, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Ted Leung wrote: How is this possible when any other PMC can vote to bring a project in without approval of the

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Ted Leung wrote: On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: That's because an Apache project is an EFFORT of the ASF. It is not some diploma that people receive at the end of graduation. Everything done at the ASF is an Apache project. Some are

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:01:14PM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: Incubator Graduation Check List --- Should this document include package name changes for Java projects, from foo.bar to org.apache? (And similar namespace changes for XML files, etc.) --

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: That's the fundamental problem I have with this entire thread: people are trying to limit the growth or exclude projects. How? On what basis? In my mind, there are 2 considerations: What is in the best interest of the PMC, and what

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Sam Ruby
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Sam, it's not just a question of content and significance. It's also a question of fitting with existing projects and check to make sure that the project still adheres to the the charter of the PMC. These are better checked by outsiders (Incubator PMC), since the

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Every TLP has an explicit charter when created by the board in the resolution that creates them. How they interpret that and change with the shifting sands of technology style is up to them geir On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Sounds good to me (hopefully all

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:11:55AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I am no longer convinced of this. Having the Incubator PMC there as a check and balance is a good thing as it requires engagement from others interested in this aspect of ASF life. It prevents one individual or one PMC

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Hmmm...But the deal is if the PMC wants a change to its charter it needs to VOTE on it and formally adopt it. right? AND if the PMC does not have one then it needs to adhere to the board resolution. right? You know where i am going with this, if you read between the lines... -- dims On

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:11:55AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I am no longer convinced of this. Having the Incubator PMC there as a check and balance is a good thing as it requires engagement from others interested in this aspect

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Hmmm...But the deal is if the PMC wants a change to its charter it needs to VOTE on it and formally adopt it. right? AND if the PMC does not have one then it needs to adhere to the board resolution. right? You know where i am going with

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:26:38AM -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Hmmm...But the deal is if the PMC wants a change to its charter it needs to VOTE on it and formally adopt it. right? AND if the PMC does not have one then it needs to adhere to the board resolution. right? You know where i am

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Erik Abele
On 23.12.2005, at 16:57, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:11:55AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: ... I think that there's little downside to this. A check on the Incubator PMC is the board - any member or PMC could appeal to the board in the event that they believed their

FTPServer one more time

2005-12-23 Thread Sergey Vladimirov
Hi, general. Some time ago I asked about situation when none of commiters of project active anymore. The situation in FTPServer project is much funny, and tragically in same time. 1st of December I asked this mail list what to do with such projects. 2nd of December I asked ftpserver-dev about

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
robert burrell donkin wrote: On 12/23/05, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:01:14PM -0800, Jean T. Anderson wrote: Incubator Graduation Check List --- [ ] Move svn repo from incubator to new location [ ] *** ? *** requests

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
I'll integrate the rest of the suggestions so far (thanks, Justin, Robert, and Yoav), then would like to take a shot at adding it to the web site. The best fit for this check list would be a new subsection in http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Exitting+the+Incubator

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On December 23, 2005 9:32:16 AM -0800 Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll integrate the rest of the suggestions so far (thanks, Justin, Robert, and Yoav), then would like to take a shot at adding it to the web site. The best fit for this check list would be a new subsection in

Growth Summary

2005-12-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
I'd like summarize the discussion so far, with comments regarding my own PoV... Q: Is the Incubator out of control? A: No, it's not. The Incubator is actually working out quite well, and performing its duties. Yes, occasionally some things slip through the cracks, but out of

[policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Sorry to change the subject... Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a podling brings code over? -- Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Martin Sebor
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Sorry to change the subject... Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a podling brings code over? I can't make a definitive statement but stdcxx didn't (although I would have liked it

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On December 23, 2005 1:15:44 PM -0500 Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to change the subject... Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a podling brings code over? I say no. We should only take

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On December 23, 2005 9:32:16 AM -0800 Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll integrate the rest of the suggestions so far (thanks, Justin, Robert, and Yoav), then would like to take a shot at adding it to the web site. The best fit for this check list would

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Martin Sebor
Jean T. Anderson wrote: [...] What did I miss? changes? corrections? thanks, -jean Incubator Graduation Check List --- [...] [ ] Project updates the STATUS file to reflect graduation FWIW, references to the STATUS file have recently been replaced by

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On December 23, 2005 1:15:44 PM -0500 Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to change the subject... Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a

Re: [VOTE] @domain for Incubator mailing lists

2005-12-23 Thread Craig L Russell
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:On Dec 21, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: Excuse me, but don't we have a -1 on this vote thread already? Is the idea to get Dain to change his vote by piling on more +1? Or have I completely missed the Tao of the voting process in

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:14 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Erik Abele wrote: So nobody has the right but you do? Or how can your smack-down of the Tuscany proposal be interpreted? Because Tuscany was proposed to the

Re: Growth Summary

2005-12-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On December 23, 2005 12:47:26 PM -0500 Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: The Incubator controls who leaves... who controls who enters? It seems like both are needed. A: Yes, and there are controls for who enters as well. Applicants must be sponsored by a current

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Martin Sebor wrote: Jean T. Anderson wrote: [...] What did I miss? changes? corrections? thanks, -jean Incubator Graduation Check List --- [...] [ ] Project updates the STATUS file to reflect graduation FWIW, references to the STATUS file have

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: Incubator Graduation Check List --- [ ] Move svn repo from incubator to new location ... [ ] Project removes the incubator disclaimer README at the top level This might be another derbyism creeping in. The derby mentor started us

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Martin Sebor
Jean T. Anderson wrote: [...] Actually, the STATUS file was in the context of the repo move: [ ] Move svn repo from incubator to new location ... [ ] Project updates the STATUS file to reflect graduation In other words, the STATUS file in the top level directory of the

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Martin Sebor wrote: Jean T. Anderson wrote: [...] Actually, the STATUS file was in the context of the repo move: [ ] Move svn repo from incubator to new location ... [ ] Project updates the STATUS file to reflect graduation In other words, the STATUS file in the top level

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/23/05, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On December 23, 2005 1:15:44 PM -0500 Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to change the subject... Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not

Re: Growth Summary

2005-12-23 Thread Sam Ruby
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On December 23, 2005 12:47:26 PM -0500 Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: The Incubator controls who leaves... who controls who enters? It seems like both are needed. A: Yes, and there are controls for who enters as well. Applicants must be

Re: Is the incubator out of control?

2005-12-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 23 December 2005 16:23, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I'm all in favor of enforcing a strict embargo until the Incubator PMC approves a proposal, an initial code drop lands, and the mailing lists are created.  Until those happen, any active publicity claiming it to be a part of the ASF is

Re: FTPServer one more time

2005-12-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 24 December 2005 00:53, Sergey Vladimirov wrote: Hi, general. Some time ago I asked about situation when none of commiters of project active anymore. The situation in FTPServer project is much funny, and tragically in same time. 1st of December I asked this mail list what to do

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:26, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: However, I'm concerned with altering the perception that everything in our code repositories was done on our lists.  Instead, we'll now be conveying all of the oddball things that happened externally - be it at codehaus, SourceForge,

Re: FTPServer one more time

2005-12-23 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:51, Sergey Vladimirov wrote: No, the project was not retired. It was suspended due to none of commiters were available. We would like to stay as Apache Incubator Project for some time (and move from Incubator), but we have problems which cann't be solved by

Re: [doc] [draft #2] How to graduate from the incubator topic

2005-12-23 Thread David Crossley
Jean T. Anderson wrote: I only committed changes to the one source file I changed. The instructions at http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html#Using+a+local+Forrest+installation are excellent and worked well, but svn status showed many diffs on the built side, which didn't make

Re: [policy] bring in full code history on incubated project?

2005-12-23 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 23, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On December 23, 2005 1:33:34 PM -0800 Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree with Justin on these points. We must have a clean break when the code comes from a private source repository, since the history may contain