Re: [VOTE] Release cassandra 0.4.2

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
+1, nice work folks! cheers, Leo On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache Cassandra 0.4.2. We would now like to request the approval of the Incubator PMC for this release. Cassandra is a

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
+1 from me! cheers, Leo On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Nicholas Gallardo nickgalla...@yahoo.com wrote: The Wink community has voted on and approved the release of Wink 1.0 (RC-5).  We would now like to request the approval of the Incubator PMC for this release. Details of the Wink

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: PS: +1 to start incubation obviously. The record is 2 weeks set for MerlinDeveloper back in 2003...you have 9 days left to try and beat it Hey, you

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-09 Thread Branko Čibej
Leo Simons wrote: I have no idea what might be going on in your head, but from where I sit, it seems like you might be overreacting just a _bit_ to a tongue-in-cheek e-mail post script. Have some green tea. There were also some suggestions about us making a release for the sake of making a

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

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
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. So what are you teaching with e-mails like this, Greg? When you disagree with someone, SHOUT a bit and write a long rant? Or

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

2009-11-09 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: The Apache Incubator is about EDUCATION. It is about TEACHING podlings how to work here at Apache. ... The Incubator PMC is here to TEACH podlings. Stop and think before attempting to apply rules and procedures. +1. The

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Nicholas L Gallardo
Thanks Leo, your input is much appreciated. In addition to this +1, we received a +1 from Kevan Miller in the Wink community vote. Is that vote transportable here? If so, then we just need one more +1 to release as the vote has already been open for 72 hours. Nicholas Gallardo WebSphere -

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

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 09:14, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.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. So what are you teaching with e-mails like this, Greg?

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

2009-11-09 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and necessary for graduation - not the IPMC as a whole. Nope... The whole IPMC has been tasked with oversight. The mentors are proxies for the whole IPMC.

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

2009-11-09 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Yes, *AND* ensuring legal dots are put on the i's and j's. This is done through checking the release and ensuring that it is in adherence to our policies which you and others have crafted. *All* podlings have to ensure they have the correct licensing headers, notices and other bits in place before

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread ant elder
Looks good to me +1 ...ant On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Nicholas L Gallardo nlgal...@us.ibm.comwrote: Thanks Leo, your input is much appreciated. In addition to this +1, we received a +1 from Kevan Miller in the Wink community vote. Is that vote transportable here? If so, then we just

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Kevan Miller
On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Nicholas L Gallardo wrote: Thanks Leo, your input is much appreciated. In addition to this +1, we received a +1 from Kevan Miller in the Wink community vote. Is that vote transportable here? If so, then we just need one more +1 to release as the vote has

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Nicholas L Gallardo
Thanks Ant. Do you have any input on the question below? Is that vote [mentor/IPMC member] transportable here? Nicholas Gallardo WebSphere - REST WebServices Development nlgal...@us.ibm.com Phone: 512-286-6258 Building: 903 / 5G-016

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

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 09:27, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, *AND* ensuring legal dots are put on the i's and j's. This is done through checking the release and ensuring that it is in adherence to our policies which you and others have crafted. *All* podlings have to

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Nicholas L Gallardo nlgal...@us.ibm.com wrote: Thanks Leo, your input is much appreciated. In addition to this +1, we received a +1 from Kevan Miller in the Wink community vote. Is that vote transportable here? If so, then we just need one more +1 to release

Re: [VOTE] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread ant elder
Yep, I agree with what Kevan just said, so you're good to go now. ...ant On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Nicholas L Gallardo nlgal...@us.ibm.comwrote: Thanks Ant. Do you have any input on the question below? Is that vote [mentor/IPMC member] transportable here? Nicholas Gallardo

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

2009-11-09 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and necessary for graduation - not the IPMC as a whole. Nope... The

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

2009-11-09 Thread Branko Čibej
Martijn Dashorst wrote: Yes, *AND* ensuring legal dots are put on the i's and j's. This is done through checking the release and ensuring that it is in adherence to our policies which you and others have crafted. *All* podlings have to ensure they have the correct licensing headers, notices

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

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: To be clear, it's on the mentors to decide what is applicable and necessary for graduation - not the IPMC as a whole.  The IPMC as a whole has only two roles: approving a proposal and recommending graduation Also,

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

2009-11-09 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Hi Greg, I am not on either side of the debate here, but Martijn is correct in pointing that the formal standard was applied to *all* podlings to date. There's more than a few projects in the ASF that were originally developed in the open, with strong communities. And in those cases that

[VOTE][RESULTS] Release Wink 1.0 (RC-5)

2009-11-09 Thread Nicholas L Gallardo
The vote for releasing Wink 1.0 passes with 3 binding +1s and 0 +0/-1 votes. Binding votes were cast by: Kevan Miller Leo Simmons Ant Elder Thanks for the input and help in getting us to 1.0! -Nick Nicholas Gallardo WebSphere - REST WebServices Development nlgal...@us.ibm.com Phone:

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

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:11, Andrus Adamchik and...@objectstyle.org wrote: Hi Greg, I am not on either side of the debate here, but Martijn is correct in pointing that the formal standard was applied to *all* podlings to date. I understand, and will simply ask was that the right thing to do?

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

2009-11-09 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: Also, to be clear, as an IPMC member I spend quite a bit of time with projects where I am not a mentor, casting (binding) votes on things like their releases. I will continue to do that, inline with procedure and policy and

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

2009-11-09 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: This is where I think the Incubator has gone awry: the claim that you are an IPMC member implies that you have merit on a project (in the form of a binding vote) is false. Not sure if I am looking at the same

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

2009-11-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: ...I'm mildly uncomfortable with mentors who aren't actually involved in the project telling a community what to do - but I accept that as a necessity of the Incubation process.  However, I'm much more uncomfortable

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

2009-11-09 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Nov 9, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Greg Stein wrote: I mean, really... how many other projects that are 9.5 years old(*) do we expect to see arriving here? And of those, how many *started* with the ideas and precepts of the Apache Software Foundation? I suspect it will be zero, so wasting a lot of

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

2009-11-09 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: OTOH, podlings that don't have 3 active mentors can't get 3 binding votes internally, so IPMC members have to jump in sometimes. Thanks to those of us who do! I view the proposal accepting the projects with the

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

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:53, Andrus Adamchik and...@objectstyle.org wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Greg Stein wrote: I mean, really... how many other projects that are 9.5 years old(*) do we expect to see arriving here? And of those, how many *started* with the ideas and precepts of the

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: Also, to be clear, as an IPMC member I spend quite a bit of time with projects where I am not a mentor, casting (binding) votes on things like

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

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message From: Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, November 9, 2009 7:56:53 AM Subject: Re: Insanity. Apache Incubator should be about education (was: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion) On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bertrand

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:16, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: ... Not merit, just binding vote. I agree that it sucks, but it is not something where the incubator has gone awry, it has _always_ been messed up like this. Here's what I understand: 1) Apache rule: all apache releases must

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-09 Thread Igor Burilo
We have a number of *user-configurable* dependencies which are not compatible with the AL: - Neon, a HTTP client library, used by libsvn_ra_neon, is LGPL. (An alternative HTTP client library, libsvn_ra_serf uses the Serf library under ALv2.) Neon is currently Subversion's default RA DAV

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

2009-11-09 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 09:27, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, *AND* ensuring legal dots are put on the i's and j's. This is done through checking the release and ensuring that it is in adherence to our

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-09 Thread C. Michael Pilato
Igor Burilo wrote: We have a number of *user-configurable* dependencies which are not compatible with the AL: - Neon, a HTTP client library, used by libsvn_ra_neon, is LGPL. (An alternative HTTP client library, libsvn_ra_serf uses the Serf library under ALv2.) Neon is currently

Re: Insanity (of the release process)

2009-11-09 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:16, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: ... Not merit, just binding vote. I agree that it sucks, but it is not something where the incubator has gone awry, it has _always_ been messed up like this.

[VOTE RESULTS] was: [VOTE] Release cassandra 0.4.2

2009-11-09 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 11:37 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache Cassandra 0.4.2. We would now like to request the approval of the Incubator PMC for this release. Cassandra is a massively scalable, eventually consistent, distributed,

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

2009-11-09 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Greg, I'm afraid that you have totally mistranslated my message and I have no idea why. I'm not trying to pick a fight. I'm trying to be reasonable. I don't perceive your reaction as positive. I'm not going to continue this discussion until you have something concrete to discuss. I

Re: [PROPOSAL][VOTE] Subversion

2009-11-09 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote: I have no idea what might be going on in your head, but from where I sit, it seems like you might be overreacting just a _bit_ to a tongue-in-cheek e-mail post script. Have some green tea. What is/was going on in my head is