Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-12 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org wrote: Actually, the vote was kind of withdrawn to update it to new descriptors. Thus, its not available yet.   In anycase, no need to spam all the PMCs, especially those not using Maven.   Just keep an eye on the annou...@maven

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Ian Boston
On 12 Nov 2009, at 03:16, Greg Stein wrote: Not a strong opinion, but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change and discussing it. But

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Wechner
Ian Boston schrieb: not least because committed mistakes demand fixing by the committer and then anyone who can fix the bug. The only downside is that occasionally trunk wont build/run and if trunk is close to production that probably matters. I think another downside is, that (maybe

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
Michael Wechner wrote: Ian Boston schrieb: not least because committed mistakes demand fixing by the committer and then anyone who can fix the bug. The only downside is that occasionally trunk wont build/run and if trunk is close to production that probably matters. I think another

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Paul Querna
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Not a strong opinion, but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Bruce Snyder
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Not a strong opinion, but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Fox
Why not sent it through bo...@? All Chairs are subscribed to that list, several board members have in the past raised concerns about the releases created using maven. This would unequivocally show that maven has delivered a working solution, and notify all PMC chairs of the general Apache

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:44 +0100, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I think part of Cassandra's problem is that they do releases directly from trunk and don't have a 'stable' et al branch. No, this isn't (has never been) true. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/branches/ The

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:16 +, ant elder wrote: so about 6 months ago to try to help with problems they were having, and since then 99% of the commits have been made by only two people. I assume you're referring to Jonathan Ellis and myself, and I'm not sure that's exactly fair. There are

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 22:16 -0500, Greg Stein wrote: Not a strong opinion, but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change and discussing

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:16 +, ant elder wrote: so about 6 months ago to try to help with problems they were having, and since then 99% of the

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:32, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: I agree with you, but tabled my protest because in practice what we have is working, doesn't seem to be a barrier to contribution, and everyone seems happy

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:32, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: ... I agree with this, and as a Cassandra committer I have in the past protested our use of RTC. However, the current work-flow *in practice* is more about having someone, anyone, give changes a once over (making sure they

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:16 +, ant elder wrote: so about 6 months ago to try to help with problems they were having, and since then 99% of the commits have been made by only two people. I assume you're referring to

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So about 40% of the committed code is coming from others and reviewed by others - great - why not make some of those others committers? It's a long tail sort of thing. We follow the convention Johan suggested of assigning

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:32, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: ... I agree with this, and as a Cassandra committer I have in the past protested our use of RTC. However, the current work-flow *in practice* is more

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread ant elder
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So about 40% of the committed code is coming from others and reviewed by others - great - why not make some of those others committers? It's a long

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:36 -0500, Greg Stein wrote: I agree with you, but tabled my protest because in practice what we have is working, doesn't seem to be a barrier to contribution, and everyone seems happy with it (even the casual contributors). I wouldn't say everyone. This whole

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-12 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Relax the exit criteria: Especially the diversity requirement is a major barrier for many projects. There have been various calls to relax the diversity

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:55 AM, ant elder antel...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: So about 40% of the committed code is coming from others and reviewed by

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:18, Niall Pemberton niall.pember...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings how to work here at Apache. It is not about making podlings thoughtlessly

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Branko Čibej
Eric Evans wrote: Sure, but the IPMC is in a position of power, and can impose it's will upon the project (including CTR vs. RTC), right? I have no clue whether the IPMC can impose such a decision. But I'm very, very certain that it should not even consider trying. It's better to ask the

[last call] svn repository moving Sunday (was: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion)

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
It looks like we might be moving the code repository over on Sunday(!). Thus, my query about source code placement has a finite window for further discussion :-) Over the past two days, it sounds like nobody has any particular object to the svn code being loaded directly to /subversion. (yes, it

Re: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
Thanks, and yes: agreed on the rationale. And have no fears. We aren't going to back out. And I'm not seeing that the ASF would boot us. So that just means we need to work through it :-) On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 19:17, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Greg

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:44, Matthieu Riou matthieu.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:16 +, ant elder wrote: so about 6 months ago

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Matthieu Riou
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:44, Matthieu Riou matthieu.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote:

Re: How to shorten the duration of incubation (Was: Insanity...)

2009-11-12 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/11/10 Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com: 3) Increase the amount of mentoring: The lack of mentor time and better (not necessarily more) supporting documentation gives unnecessary administrational and procedural headaches (failed release votes, etc.) to many podlings. Without more

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Aidan Skinner
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Not a strong opinion, but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is about making a change

Re: Review-Then-Commit

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
Yup. We have all had different experiences, and I certainly acknowledge it is possible to have a successful RTC model in place. The real problem is that there is always a success story for any position. See? It works here. And there are *so* many factors that go into that success, beyond the

Re: [last call] svn repository moving Sunday (was: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion)

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
Forgot to list the Infrastructure ticket, in case you would like to follow the migration more closely: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2321 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 13:41, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like we might be moving the code repository over on Sunday(!).

[last call] setting up Subversion mailing lists (was: Two other issues to discuss for Subversion)

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
Joe Schaefer asked if he could set up the mailing lists this weekend. The discussion seemed to end, with no particular opposition, so I filed an Infrastructure ticket to track the creation of the mailing lists: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2324 At this time, we're setting up just

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Plan: raise an issue, and we fix it. Not sure what else you're looking for. I was just pointing out that if you want to do the release review based on an existing 1.6.x release, I wouldn't expect it to be fully compliant

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Plan: raise an issue, and we fix it. Not sure what else you're looking for. I was just pointing out that if you want to do the release review based on an existing

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:05, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Plan: raise an issue, and we fix it. Not sure what else you're looking for. I was just pointing out that if you want to do the release review

Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: If you want to review *bits* rather than *release process*, then you can take a look at trunk/ or the nightlies that we'll soon produce. If you want release process *and* Apache-branding, then the svn community is not prepared to provide that, nor do I think it necessary

svn website (was: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education)

2009-11-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 00:14, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... On your other subject, svn and lists and site at subversion.apache.org, that is a problem but not insurmountable. If we move 1) the lists to subversion.apache.org [it's just a discussion, right?  Only publicized

Re: svn website (was: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education)

2009-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Greg Stein wrote: We're not sure what we'd like to do about website migration right now. Discussion is still occurring in the community. The bottom line is that we are in sync in terms of what aught to move into ASF and have 'formal recognition' ASAP. E.g. a mailing list is trivial, svn is

Re: maven releases at Apache (what does this have to do with: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion)

2009-11-12 Thread Brett Porter
For unrelated reasons, I today split out the Apache-ness part of the Maven release process (still syncing): http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/apache-release.html It could still use more work, but that's all I have time for right now if someone wants to patch it (eg, to explain the