On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 09:20AM, Henry Saputra wrote:
> Cos,
> 
> Let's allow the community think about it.

Sure thing. The reason I was replying to these emails is because of the
falsehood graduation "requirements" these guys were inventing on the go. That
had to be clarified.

> You have expressed your points about CTR vs RTC.
> Both have merits in their own way and we have to see which one fits with
> Zeppelin community.
> 
> - Henry
> 
> On Saturday, November 28, 2015, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 09:15AM, Eran Witkon wrote:
> > > My 2 cents here...
> > > I know that I got good and productive feedback through the review process
> > > and I am happy it was included before it was committed.
> >
> > This is a non sequitur. CTR doesn't prevent you or anyone else from getting
> > reviews. I suggest we stop milking this argument, because it is simply
> > false.
> >
> > > I agree that that the review does not need to be done by the PMC members
> > > but should be handled on the DEV list.
> >
> > Again, this is a some sort of misconception about an incubator project
> > (which
> > doesn't have a PMC, but a PPMC - which is a bike with training wheels to
> > teach
> > people what PMC will be exposed to in the future). As explained in [1]
> >
> > Let's take a short detour....
> > "The Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) helps a Podling learn how
> > to
> > govern itself. It works like a PMC but reports to the Incubator PMC
> > instead of
> > to the ASF Board. Initially, it is composed of the Podling's mentors and
> > initial committers. The PPMC is directly responsible for the oversight of
> > the
> > podling and it also decides who to add as a PPMC member."
> >
> > (P)PMC isn't a super-natural authority that rules over the technical
> > aspects
> > of the project, but rather a project governance mechanism. PMC has a very
> > clear set of responsibilities explained in [2]. In short they are
> >
> >     Comply With Legal Affairs Policies
> >     Comply With Brand Management Policies
> >     Responsibly Report Misuses Of Apache Brands
> >     Conduct Project Business On Mailing Lists
> >
> > In other words, PMC-hat is irrelevant in code reviews or making technical
> > decision, until it comes to release votes for which PMC is responsible.
> >
> > End of detour.
> >
> > > I am sure that for every PR which has a review process in the DEV list
> > and
> > > enough +1 voting for it it will be committed even if none of the PMC
> > tested
> > > it.
> >
> > Unless this is a unfortunate choice of words, it is not how it works. No
> > voting is needed for a code change to be committed. Apache doesn't use
> > voting
> > for the mundane fixes and patched. However, a vote can be colled on a code
> > modification as explained in [3]
> >
> > > I this only if and when we see PR with enough +1 which are not committed
> > > then we can think of speeding it up with RTC or adding more committers.
> > > So bottom line is +1 for RTC
> >
> > What number of "+1"s is _enough_ for a patch to get committed? Obviously,
> > every project can make it as high as needed to satisfy their liking. Most
> > RTC
> > projects say "at for a patch to get committed least one +1".  But I can
> > imagine projects that would require 5 +1s (or any other ludicrous number)
> > to
> > get a change in. I would also imagine that NOTHING ever will be done in
> > such
> >
> > "a PR with enough +1 which are not committed" is a problem that won't be
> > solved by either CTR or RTC or whatever. This would be most likely the
> > issue
> > where committers aren't willing to commit stuff because they don't won't to
> > take responsibility for it, but are fine with reviewing it. As the result
> > the
> > progress will stall.
> >
> > Using voting to substitute the consensus building is a false path. Apache
> > isn't a democracy, ruled by majority preferences. If there is a majority -
> > there's always a minority. Once such split is allowed to happen the
> > community
> > will be screwed sooner or later, as the split will lead to internal
> > tensions,
> > conflicts and drama. Do not go there...
> >
> > [1] https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html
> > [2] https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
> > [3] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html
> >
> > Cos
> >
> > > Eran
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 7:55 AM Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > See in-lined...
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 04:25AM, moon soo Lee wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I don't see how it is possible. Empirically it isn't ever a case as
> > > > well.
> > > > > > Could you please elaborate how this might happen in your view?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > Let me share some history about Zeppelin project,
> > > > > It was developed in CTR way in the beginning. and it continued until
> > > > > sometime around Zeppelin enters Apache incubation. Then somehow
> > naturally
> > > > > switched to RTC.
> > > > >
> > > > > We didn't explicitly discussed about CTR/RTC change at that time, so
> > i
> > > > > can't say the exact reason. But i can guess the reason. Users were
> > > > growing
> > > > > rapidly at that time and most of them build Zeppelin from master
> > branch.
> > > > > And we didn't wanted to break the code and become extremely careful
> > to
> > > > > merge pullrequest without review. That's how RTC landed into
> > Zeppelin, i
> > > > > think.
> > > > >
> > > > > After review becomes so important, we started respect any review
> > from not
> > > > > only committers but also contributors (non-committers). That
> > continued
> > > > > until now. And now I see the only difference between committer and
> > > > > contributor is that committer can initiate lazy consensus. So
> > > > participating
> > > > > review becomes one of the major way influencing the project.
> > > > >
> > > > > But obviously, by their nature, 'R' in CTR is less encouraging
> > compare to
> > > > > RTC. Again I'm not saying 'R' is not in CTR. If someone say 'R' in
> > CTR is
> > > > > more encouraging than 'R' in RTC, then i also can say, RTC is faster
> > then
> > > > > CTR. I mean less encouraging is 'compare to' RTC.
> > > > >
> > > > > And while committers goes with CTR, contributors will remain RTC.
> > > >
> > > > Yup, but it has nothing to do with the development model.
> > > >
> > > > > Because of this nature of CTR / RTC differences, there's chances to
> > > > reduce
> > > > > influences from contributor (non-committer) in this project and my
> > worry
> > > > > here was about this.
> > > >
> > > > Again, I don't see how it is possible. Once the commit is pushed
> > everyone
> > > > including non-committers are able to look at it. If there's something
> > wrong
> > > > with it - the issue can be raised same way as before.
> > > >
> > > > > If you can share some experience from Bigtop, especially about those
> > who
> > > > is
> > > > > not a committer, after changing RTC -> CTR, that would be really
> > > > > interesting and helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Nothing changed for contributors from that stand point of view. Someone
> > > > needs
> > > > to review their code before committing. And that's an increased level
> > of
> > > > trust
> > > > (sorry, it is overloaded): contributor needs to be guided and perhaps
> > > > watched.
> > > > But with a committer you can be sure that if a feedback is desirable
> > the
> > > > said
> > > > committer will proactive search for it in the comminity. And if change
> > is
> > > > trivial - he'll just go ahead and commit the stuff once it is ready.
> > > >
> > > > I'd say we haven't seen much of a change in the flow once we switched.
> > > > People
> > > > are still asking for review at times. Or just go and commit the stuff
> > once
> > > > they need to. We still discuss things on JIRAs and dev@ - same as
> > before.
> > > >
> > > > > > > But what I agree is, CTR can be faster than RTC. That can help
> > speed
> > > > up
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > development of Zeppelin and that's what I personally really want
> > and
> > > > > > can't
> > > > > > > wait.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So, to me, applying CTR for this reason is more than welcome.
> > But I
> > > > think
> > > > > > > we need some preparation to keep the consensus in the community.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It isn't only about speeding up. It is about the maturity and
> > mutual
> > > > > > appreciation of my fellow committers, doing 'the right thing'.
> > > > > >
> > > > > Even though I agree and I want to go CTR, I don't believe community
> > have
> > > > > CTR is more mature than RTC. vise versa.
> > > >
> > > > There are different criteria of maturity. What I was saying is the
> > > > committers
> > > > have to be grown-up for sure. And becoming a committer might be a bit
> > more
> > > > lengthy process, because you'd want to make sure that this next
> > committer
> > > > guy
> > > > will be doing good by the project. Instead of being a drive-by shooter.
> > > >
> > > > Cos
> > > >
> >

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