Re: [VOTE] Accept Fury Into the ASF Incubator

2023-12-09 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 5:05 AM tison wrote: > Hi Incubator > > Following the discussion [DISCUSS] Incubating Proposal of Fury [1], I > am starting this official vote for the Fury project. > > Here is their proposal: >

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubating Proposal of Fury

2023-12-06 Thread Greg Stein
Is there any docco/comparison that we can read, comparing Fury to Apache Thrift and Apache Avro? On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 3:01 AM tison wrote: > Hi IPMC members, > > I would like to propose a new project to the ASF incubator - Fury. > > Fury[1] is a high-performance, multi-language, and

Re: [REQUEST] Grant permission to deploy Maven project via GitHub Actions

2023-07-03 Thread Greg Stein
Tison: STOP cross-posting between private and public lists. You have been advised to stop doing so once, and this is now TWICE. No more. Regards, Greg Stein Infrastructure Administrator, ASF On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 6:01 AM tison wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for your information!

Re: [QUESTION] do pom files need to have a license header

2023-01-29 Thread Greg Stein
The source archive/tarball includes a LICENSE and NOTICE which specifies the license for that artifact. The individual files' header simply reinforces that. In some release artifacts, individual files have a slightly different license (eg. a third-party MIT-licensed piece of source), which

Re: [DISCUSS] Incubating Proposal for Pekko

2022-10-19 Thread Greg Stein
Sheng Wu is correct. I was a Mentor for the Apache Fineract project. Never read the dev@ list, never checked out the code. They graduated, and I didn't join the PMC. But I happen to still be subscribed to their mailing list to offer historical perspective/advice. There are many ways to contribute

Re: possible interest in forming a community fork of akka

2022-09-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 4:55 AM PJ Fanning wrote: >... > In some cases, the critical fix might be submitted to the fork first > and it may be easier for the Lightbend team to cherry pick those cases > than it is for the fork team to do the opposite. > Should an ALv2 fork arise *anywhere*[1],

Re: terminology (was: [DISCUSSION] Incubating proposal of Kvrocks)

2022-04-26 Thread Greg Stein
Oh, sure. That totally works! On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:14 PM tison wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for pointing that out. Is "5 IPMC members" correct also? "5 members > of the IPMC" is a bit wordy, though. > > Best, > tison. > > > Greg St

terminology (was: [DISCUSSION] Incubating proposal of Kvrocks)

2022-04-26 Thread Greg Stein
I have a problem with the terminology some people are using: On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:28 PM tison wrote: >... > 3. The proposal wants to run this podling with 5 IPMCs, There is ONLY ONE IPMC. aka the Incubator Project Management Committee. ONE. IPMC refers to the committee. The use of

Re: Can we use the GitHub's "transferring a repository" feature after IP clearance

2021-11-24 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 1:24 AM Dominik Riemer wrote: > Hi, > > we used the "transfer repository" feature when we were transferring > StreamPipes to the incubator, which worked smoothly. > Infra performs the transfer upon request, the only requirement is that you > are able to add someone from

Re: [WEBSITE] More Fully Move to Git

2021-08-06 Thread Greg Stein
Branches for a purpose are appropriate. Avoiding that tool/feature, and (say) using distinct repositories is a version control anti-pattern. Cheers, -g On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 03:59 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 6:39 PM Dave Fisher wrote: > > ...In Pelican we

Re: [VOTE] Retire BlueMarlin project from Incubator

2021-02-21 Thread Greg Stein
+0 to retire (binding) On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:32 AM Sheng Wu wrote: > Hi IPMC > > This is an official vote for retiring the BlueMarlin from the incubator. > We had several discussion about this > - general@incubator, > >

Re: Travis job on github

2021-02-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 01:36 Weiwei Yang wrote: >... > we can communicate with Microsoft about giving the Apache > repo some extra resources. > I guess it won't be a big problem to such a wealthy company  > Their wealth does not mean they can give us anything we want. That is a fallacy. Their

Re: svn commit: r1878377 - /incubator/public/trunk/content/podlings.xml

2020-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
Yeah, sorry about the intrusion. Infra took a quick workaround, but we'll fix our tools instead, for the next time. Won't happen again. Regards, Greg InfraAdmin, ASF On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:53 PM Dave Fisher wrote: > No, why? Please revert this. > > Please discuss with the Petri PMC. > >

Re: [MENTORS] Podlings download pages with issues

2020-03-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:11 AM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > I guess given it's a recent change, not all projects projects are aware of > it or have made the changes yet. This change means most podling download > pages would need to change and I assume most TLP as well. > > As /dist has been

Re: [MENTORS] Podlings download pages with issues

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:01 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Also I assume https://archive.apache.org/dist/ is still valid for older > releases? > Yes. Please stop trimming emails so much. Do you spend extra time just deleting context? Makes for a lot of extra work. So manually cut/paste your

Re: [MENTORS] Podlings download pages with issues

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Stein
Good work, Justin. One small comment: On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:57 PM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > if not href.startswith('https://www.apache.org/dist/') > and not href.startswith('https://archive.apache.org/dist'): > print("Please change link to " + href + "

Re: Incubator PMC members not subscribed to private list

2020-01-21 Thread Greg Stein
IMO, involuntary mailing list subscription is not the right choice. ... Just take your list of AWOL non-responders to the Board, and ask if there are any objections to placing them on a "removal" resolution for the February meeting. The Board may provide some guidance/steps to take. Or they may

Re: How to subscribe (was: Incubator PMC members not subscribed to private list)

2020-01-17 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:10 PM Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi - > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 16, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Justin Mclean > wrote: > >... > > In the case of people asking to be removed from the IPMC, they are > removed from the roster, this is reported in the next Incubator board >

Re: How to subscribe (was: Incubator PMC members not subscribed to private list)

2020-01-16 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:59 AM Nathan Hartman wrote: >... > This should be documented clearly under expectations from IPMC members. If > there is a period of inactivity after which IPMC members will be removed, > then people should know this up front. > Only the Board can remove members from a

Re: Incubator PMC members not subscribed to private list

2020-01-16 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:41 AM Trevor Grant wrote: > @Greg, I would echo Ning's point. > I saw Ning's post before my own response, and (frankly) have little sympathy. Email exists to ask questions and solve problems. "I can't get subscribed. Please help" is very easy to send. If a member of

Re: Incubator PMC members not subscribed to private list

2020-01-16 Thread Greg Stein
In the past, I've made my position clear: if an IPMC member cannot be bothered to get themselves subscribed to the private list, then they are not providing appropriate oversight, and (thus) should be removed from the PMC. They can continue to contribute via the general@ list, but lose their

Re: [VOTE] Accept NuttX into the Apache Incubator

2019-12-03 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:30 PM 俊平堵 wrote: > Hi folks, > > > The [DISCUSS] thread on NuttX has died down. > > > Accordingly, I would like to call a VOTE to accept NuttX into the > > Apache Incubator. > > > Please cast your vote: > > > [ ] +1, bring NuttX into the Incubator > >

Re: [DISCUSS] NuttX Proposal

2019-12-02 Thread Greg Stein
I say just move to a vote and stop the second-guessing. GNutt seems on-board. Let them get their stuff done. On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 5:23 PM Alex Harui wrote: > Might be less risk and disruption for a few experienced ASF folks to go > "live amongst" the NuttX folks where they are now and verify

Re: [DISCUSS] NuttX Proposal

2019-12-01 Thread Greg Stein
The initial five works for me. I see no reason to add more at this time. It would only be a block for graduation, not inception. To rephrase: some may have an issue with five, but I bet you'll get enough +1 votes as-is. Cheers, -g On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 6:39 PM 张铎(Duo Zhang) wrote: > I think

Re: [DISCUSS] NuttX Proposal

2019-12-01 Thread Greg Stein
ld require some discussion with infra to see what’s possible here. > > If it is not possible to automate this, then changes originated from old > retiring Bitbucket could be handled as normal PRs. That is not unusual. > The Apache Infrastructure team has no tooling to synchronize with third

Re: [DISCUSS] NuttX Proposal

2019-12-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 11:38 AM Dave Fisher wrote: >... > It would help if the initial committer list was greater than the bare > minimum of three. Three PPMC members is not enough. There needs to be at > least five committers to start. > Read the thread in its entirety, please. It has already

Re: [GitHub] [incubator] justinmclean merged pull request #53: bold table title and fix footer spacing

2019-11-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 2:41 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > HI, > > > should these go to commits@incubator, rather than general@ ? > > I just filter to the same mail folder, but happy to have that change > happen. Do I need to raise a JIRA or can you do it? > Infra requests a [thread] link to

Re: [GitHub] [incubator] justinmclean merged pull request #53: bold table title and fix footer spacing

2019-11-26 Thread Greg Stein
should these go to commits@incubator, rather than general@ ? On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:09 PM GitBox wrote: > justinmclean merged pull request #53: bold table title and fix footer > spacing > URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator/pull/53 > > > > >

Re: Incubator release area clean up

2019-11-16 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 5:16 PM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > There is a possible alternative and that is to not have a incubating area > and have all projects just use /dist/dev/ and > /dist/release/. That way no clean up would be needed. The > releases still have incubator disclaimers and are

Re: Incubator release area clean up

2019-11-15 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:18 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Ha! The Infra team was just talking about that today, with the retirement > > of Edgent and (cleanup of) Zipkin. Over the years, we've had mixed > signals > > about what to do with "Incubator releases" after a podling leaves the >

Re: Incubator release area clean up

2019-11-14 Thread Greg Stein
Ha! The Infra team was just talking about that today, with the retirement of Edgent and (cleanup of) Zipkin. Over the years, we've had mixed signals about what to do with "Incubator releases" after a podling leaves the Incubator. Some have said "keep them; they are IPMC releases", or "they should

Re: [DISUCSS] Is there any neccessary to do an Apache Release if we publish an App to Apple Store?

2019-11-07 Thread Greg Stein
We're trying to do better on what services are available, so consider this "step one" :-) On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:19 PM Julian Feinauer wrote: > Thanks Greg, I didn't know that! > > Julian > > Am 07.11.19, 19:24 schrieb "Greg Stein" : > > > https

Re: [DISUCSS] Is there any neccessary to do an Apache Release if we publish an App to Apple Store?

2019-11-07 Thread Greg Stein
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Distribution+via+the+Apple+App+Store On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:14 PM Greg Stein wrote: > An app signed by the Foundation is most definitely associated with the > ASF. The Foundation has an Apple Developer Account for exactly this

Re: [DISUCSS] Is there any neccessary to do an Apache Release if we publish an App to Apple Store?

2019-11-07 Thread Greg Stein
An app signed by the Foundation is most definitely associated with the ASF. The Foundation has an Apple Developer Account for exactly this reason. On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 9:17 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > A binary convenance release needs to be created from released voted on > code. [1] >

Re: Open up incubator wiki to all committers

2019-10-10 Thread Greg Stein
Generally/all: please stick to committers ... NOT confluence-users. The latter will bring down the spam. Thx, Greg InfraAdmin, ASF On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:40 AM Myrle Krantz wrote: > Hey all, > > I just checked the Weex report for October, and while doing so, I realized > that I do not have

Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 06:00 Julian Feinauer wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I think Justins Answer refers to the WIP-Disclaimer Aware of that, but disagree. It is way more: the IPMC vote is performed to establish legal oversight and shield. I suggest that is burdensome and should be tossed. PS.: Allow

Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 22:31 David Nalley wrote: >... > Greg - I propose that you, Ross (sorry for volunteering you), and I > pick an incubating project in need of mentor attention and make this > as streamlined as we can. Let's focus on educating and enabling and > not gatekeeping. Let's prove

Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 00:33 Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Q: Does the IPMC want to produce non-ASF releases? > > A: We already are Not true, as you well know. Whether we call the above a lie, or misdirection is left to the reader. The IPMC currently attempts to ensure all podling releases

Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 8:17 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Hoops constructed by the IPMC. Like a secondary release vote on general@ > > This is because of ASF bylaws i.e only PMC votes are binding on releases. That is not in the Bylaws. Stop making stuff up. > So you're saying

Re: Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 7:10 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Here's an idea... The IPMC focuses on supporting mentors to do their job > rather than forcing project developers and their mentors to jump through > arbitrarily defined hoops. > > What "arbitrarily defined hoops” are you referring

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop requirement that ASF members can join IPMC by just asking

2019-08-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:26 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > I will also note that if the IPMC switches to *voting* Members into the > > IPMC, that the Apache Member will be observing that vote take place on > > private@ through a subscription (they can reply!) or via the archives. … > >

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop requirement that ASF members can join IPMC by just asking

2019-08-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:04 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Current any ASF member can come along and ask to join the IPMC. I assume > this was put in place for two reasons: ( but don’t know the full history > behind it) > - There was a lack of mentors. > - Is is assumed that if you are an

Business decisions and risk (was: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases)

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
more reasons to back off and let podlings get their work done. Cheers, -g On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:46 PM Greg Stein wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Justin Mclean > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > I see no problem with using our infrastructure to distribute F/O

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > I see no problem with using our infrastructure to distribute F/OSS > > materials. Why would the Foundation want to be against that? If it is > > labeled properly, then ... roll with it. > > It often isn’t labelled properly.

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:29 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote: (dunno why Justin keeps trimming sources for his quotes...) > > Option (F): stop calling them official ASF releases, which means PMC > votes > > are not required. > > In that case voting would not be required and they

Re: [DISCUSS] IPMC votes on releases

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Stein
Option (F): stop calling them official ASF releases, which means PMC votes are not required. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:04 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > One of the incubator pain points is the double voting on releases first by > the podling and then by the IPMC. > > Historically there been

Re: [VOTE] DataSketches-memory RC2

2019-08-01 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:09 AM leerho wrote: > Hello Apache general@incubator community. > > 1. This is a call for vote to release Apache DataSketches-memory version: > 1.0.0-incubating-RC2 > > NOTE 1: This is one component of the DataSketches library which needs to be >

Re: [Vote] Release Apache Weex (Incubating) 0.26.0-RC2

2019-07-09 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) (also, again, registering my dispute with needs for IPMC votes) On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 6:19 AM 王乾元 wrote: > Hi, > > The Apache Weex community has voted and approved the proposal to release > Apache Weex (Incubating) version 0.26.0-RC2. > We now kindly request the Incubator PMC

Re: New disclaimer text

2019-07-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:35 PM Alex Harui wrote: > Suggestion: The DISCLAIMER references a detached copy of the DISCLAIMER > at dist.a.o/releases/incubator/project and that detached copy is the one > that gets updated with late breaking stuff. > > Re-rolling required re-GPG-signing, new hashes,

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-07-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 1:07 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Or we *don't* provide legal protections. That *is* what the disclaimer is > > there for. > > For that to happen I think the disclaimer text would need to change, I’m > assuming you don’t think that. Even so a DISCLAIMER doesn’t

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-07-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:10 AM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > Hi, > > > Although not a "real" PMC, we do need to provide legal protection for > each PPMC and distributing releases is the time that most legal > considerations "kick in" as it were. So we need a Or we *don't* provide legal

Re: New disclaimer text

2019-07-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:55 PM Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Dave Fisher wrote on Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:28 -0700: > > > On Jul 1, 2019, at 1:30 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 1:39 AM Justin Mclean < >

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-06-28 Thread Greg Stein
contents, or lack of rules. Infra just wants it placed into our distribution system in a specific way, to ensure correctness, auditing, and resilience. VP Infra has already stated the above. As an Officer of Infrastructure, I concur and reiterate that position. Regards, Greg Stein InfraAdmin, ASF

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-06-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:24 PM Sam Ruby wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 7:57 AM Greg Stein wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:13 AM Justin Mclean > > > wrote: > > > > > > b) It listed as a TLP in Whimsy > > > > Whimsy is no

Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:29 PM Craig Russell wrote: >... > No. Smiley face doesn't count. > Apparently you missed the point when Justin did that to me. Hmm? Of course it doesn't count. Why don't you go police th VP Incubator, okay? -g

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-06-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:13 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Which would be a reasonable assumption give: > > a) That only IPMC votes are binding on releases. > Only because IPMC said it must provide such votes. I maintain it does not have to. The Board gave the Incubator the range/duty

Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:34 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > I see a lot of "oh no. a bad file". What is the takeaway from that? "The > > IPMC thinks we should not release.” > > Has anyone voted -1? Nope. And even if they did a -1 vote is not a veto. > Great. Semantics. "But I didn't

Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-26 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 5:03 AM Antoine Toulme wrote: > Hi all, > The Tuweni community voted on and has approved a proposal to release > Tuweni 0.8.0. Pursuant to the Releases section of the Incubation > Policy and we would now like to request the permission of the Incubator > PMC

Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:35 PM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > This sort of language is not helpful. Nor do I think it is accurate. Can > you please take more care with your words. > I feel it is accurate. And it is not directed at anybody. Only at this process. It is descriptive, and my carefully

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-26 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 1:15 PM Ted Dunning wrote: > This comment by Craig is the most important one in the discussion. > > When the first words that people pick when disagreeing are essentially > personal insults, what is going on is better described as mud wrestling > rather than discussion. >

Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-26 Thread Greg Stein
Insanity. Just let Tuweni make a release, already. Stuff like this will get fixed eventually. On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:46 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > It may not be clear to you, but it was discussed in the earlier vote > thread. See >

Re: Infrastructure removing releases Was: Re: [VOTE] Apache Tuweni 0.8.0

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Stein
d [1] is 13 years old. Not even sure how that enters into the conversation, unless you want to take Roy's advice and move Incubator in the direction it seems people want: relax release workflow. Get the IPMC out of the process/voting. Regards, Greg Stein InfraAdmin, ASF

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-06-23 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:55 PM Davor Bonaci wrote: > I wouldn't say that there are 2 camps. The IPMC seems to be overwhelmingly > in the "2nd camp", with its desire to be lenient with the releases and > rules. > I disagree. I see a number of people who think that podling releases are

Re: Podlings, the Incubator, relationships and Apache

2019-06-23 Thread Greg Stein
+1 to 2nd camp. And even less requirements than have been suggested, I would offer. For example: if the tarball is missing a LICENSE or NOTICE file? Who cares. It's still a legal release. Just hard for downstream users to consume. But they *can*. Nothing stopping somebody from trying out the

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:33 AM Ted Dunning wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:59 AM Greg Stein wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM Lars Francke > > > wrote: > > > > > > > This is very much not thought through to the end. One

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-20 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:23 AM Myrle Krantz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:38 AM Lars Francke > wrote: > > > This is very much not thought through to the end. One question raised for > > example is whether projects would even want to become a TLP. > > The mission states: "We do this by

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:14 PM Ted Dunning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:17 AM Greg Stein wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:48 AM Justin Mclean > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > The VOTE was ridiculous. It can only co

Re: Incubation Pain Points

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:02 PM Alex Harui wrote: >... > To close with Justin's bread analogy: A bread maker that just says "just > add yeast and flour and water, kneed, let rise and bake" and then makes you > toss out the results and start over is not going to attract nearly as many > students

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:14 AM Bertrand Delacretaz < bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:13 AM Greg Stein wrote: > > ...Let's talk about the overzealous bureaucracy of the IPMC... > > IMO something that can help fix that is dec

Re: overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:48 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > The VOTE was ridiculous. It can only come out "Yes", so why? > > Which is the outcome of most votes, they confirm consensus. A vote has two outcomes. This kind of vote should never have a "no" outcome. Thus, it is specious on its

overzealous bureaucracy (was: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin)

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 7:42 PM Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi David and Greg, > > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Justin Mclean > wrote: > >... > > BTW in all previous cases of podlings exiting I could find, a vote was > taken (see below links and there’s more I’ve not listed). In most cases > this

Re: [VOTE] Zipkin leave incubator, return back to OpenZipkin

2019-06-17 Thread Greg Stein
+1 (binding) (and IMO this vote should never have been needed/called; let's help them, rather than hinder) On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:22 PM Sheng Wu wrote: > Hi > > This is a call for official vote of Zipkin leave from incubator, and > return back to OpenZipkin. > > PPMC have voted.[1], carried

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 18:57 Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Boring imo. You have to try hard to screw up Cat B (though I’ve seen it > > done). > > Really? Category B source code is generally not allowed in sources > releases. It's actually Category X. Category B as image and the like is >

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 02:47 Alex Harui wrote: > Maybe the next question is: Are all release policy violations > showstoppers? I suspect the answer is no. And thus, if any TLP can punt > release policy violations to a future release, What are you talking about? Nobody has suggested any

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:15 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > It’s a pity that the people who are strongly for this position, don’t seem > to actually want to be involved in helping out, but just want to discuss > and tell the people actually doing the work are going the wrong way about >

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:27 PM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > Hi, > > > It takes a new mindset. What is the *bare* minimum MUST? Two items? > > maaaybe three? > > Given this is probably a radical departure, would it be best to do as an > experiment with a couple of podlings? Small reversible

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-09 Thread Greg Stein
The entire note below sounds like "business as usual. we haven't learned anything." Release offsite is not a solution, IMO. I believe it is Best(tm) to have a DISCLAIMER.txt in the incubator/$podling/release/ directory, and "podling releases" which do not meet our normal policies for TLPs. I

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:39 AM Bertrand Delacretaz < bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:46 AM Justin Mclean > wrote: > > ...The proposal can be found in the draft board report. [1]... > > If I was on the Board I don't think I would accept making releases >

Re: [IMPORTANT] Board proposal on podling releases

2019-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
blah blah "legal risk" blah blah. Really. Let's step back and consider what we're talking about. A podling making a release as they learn the ropes of Apache-style governance. With a disclaimer. "OMG! There is GPL code in there!" ... no legal risk. We only care about GPL from a policy

Re: There's a missing state in the state diagram for the incubator

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Stein
This has happened before. We just say "thanks, and good luck". Most recent was odftoolkit, I believe. They moved to The Document Foundation. We transferred a related domain over TDF, for that community to use. Note that we've also stated that if a trademark is transferred to us *during*

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 7:12 PM Adrian Cole wrote: >... > https://github.com/apache/incubator-zipkin/issues/2544 That is pretty damned awesome.

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:08 AM Hen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:53 Greg Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Hen wrote: > > >... > > > * Incubating releases are Apache releases. > > > > That is demonstrably not true, as (historical

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:54 PM Craig Russell wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:24 PM Craig Russell > wrote: > > > >>> On Jun 3, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Justin Mclean > >> wrote: > >> &

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:24 PM Craig Russell wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Justin Mclean > wrote: > >... > > I agree, but if you read the disclaimer is says nothing about releases, > perhaps that needs to change? > > Yes, I'd like to change the disclaimer to state that releases cannot

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Hen wrote: >... > * Incubating releases are Apache releases. > That is demonstrably not true, as (historically) the Incubator has made releases with GPL'd code in them (eg. Hibernate). Cheers, -g

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 6:50 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Point me to where you are not allowed to make non-official podling > releases > > that conform to Incubator policy. > > I find that hard to parse and perhaps you meant don’t conform to incubator > policy? But either way it’s not

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:14 AM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > > release policy to something that **is not a Foundation release** > > But don’t these releases become foundation releases when the IPMC vote on > them? > Why should they? The vote is to make a podling release. > They do not need to

Re: Podling releases and release policy

2019-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 12:02 AM wrote: > HI, > > > Before putting it to the board, have we ever had a IPMC vote on the > matter? > > Sure if you think one is needed, but probably best to have some discussion > about it first. > It is always best to handle at the PMC-level first, rather than

Re: Podling PPMC members and mentors not signed up to private lists

2019-05-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 3:43 AM sebb wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 09:00, Greg Stein wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 2:33 AM sebb wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 02:59, Greg Stein wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:36 AM

Re: Podling PPMC members and mentors not signed up to private lists

2019-05-11 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 2:33 AM sebb wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 02:59, Greg Stein wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:36 AM Justin Mclean > > wrote: > > >... > > > > > No one should be subscribed to the private list other than mentors, > P

Re: How to move code and docs from GitHub to GitHub

2019-05-11 Thread Greg Stein
Yeup. Infra transfers repositories all the time. Just file an INFRA ticket specifying which repositories are to be transferred, and their new names. There are a couple approaches to perform the transfer, and that can be worked out in the ticket. Cheers, Greg Stein Infrastructure Administrator

Re: Podling PPMC members and mentors not signed up to private lists

2019-05-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:36 AM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > No one should be subscribed to the private list other than mentors, PPMC > members and ASF members (who can subscribe to any private list). > Strictly speaking, a (P)PMC may have invited guests subscribed to their private@ list. This

Re: board report duplication

2019-04-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 6:27 PM Sam Ruby wrote: >... > In this case, the text format predated the agenda tool. To date, a > design constraint has been to continue to allow the text format be > edited directly (and many of us still find that to be convenient at > times). > One data point: yes,

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache NetBeans (incubating) as a TLP

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:41 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > >> - What the situation with https://netbeans.org website? > > > > That question is too open-ended. What is your concern? > > No specific concern other than a general branding one. It’s slightly > unusual for a podling to graduate

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduate Apache NetBeans (incubating) as a TLP

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 6:14 PM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > - What the situation with https://netbeans.org website? > That question is too open-ended. What is your concern? Cheers, -g

Re: Podling use of StackOverflow

2019-04-04 Thread Greg Stein
Totally agreed with Julian here. Community growth is one of the hardest aspects of a healthy, Apache community. It is a never-ending and always-needed process. Shutting out paths to growth, or partitioning where/how people might participate in the community is a clear yellow flag. Reach out and

Re: List of Projects that went straight to Top Level Projects

2019-04-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:11 PM Julian Hyde wrote: > Most of the projects mentioned so far have been “internal” Only because all the umbrella-derived projects haven't been mentioned. Most of that "spin out to a TLP" was done a decade ago, so they've been omitted from discussion. > - code

Re: List of Projects that went straight to Top Level Projects

2019-03-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:43 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Actually, it is pretty easy to tell. The bottom of the resolution will > say > > something like "". Compare Royale[1] (with a discharge of > responsibilities) > > compared to Serf[2]. > > Perhaps? > > Royale has: > "RESOLVED, that

Re: List of Projects that went straight to Top Level Projects

2019-03-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:06 AM Greg Stein wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:57 AM Justin Mclean wrote: > >... > >> there. The board resolutions don’t make it clear if it’s straight TLP or >> not from what I can see > > > Actually, it is pretty easy to t

Re: List of Projects that went straight to Top Level Projects

2019-03-31 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:57 AM Justin Mclean wrote: >... > there. The board resolutions don’t make it clear if it’s straight TLP or > not from what I can see Actually, it is pretty easy to tell. The bottom of the resolution will say something like "". Compare Royale[1] (with a discharge of

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