Hi Ross,
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From: Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com>
Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>
Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:20 PM
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Incubator structure (was Re: Vote on personal matters:
majority vote vs consensus)
>On 31 March 2013 17:08, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <
>chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Why is it so hard to see that the board is already watching those 22
>> nascent projects in the same manner they watch the 137 TLPs?
>
>
>Because they are not watching with the same manner. They are delegating a
>huge range of tasks such as IP oversight and mentoring to the IPMC.
Yep this is the sticking point where we disagree -- b/c I disagree with
that.
2 tasks are not a huge range. Also my table of responsibilities in the
proposal [1]
I believe clearly specifies where any responsibility is shifted and not
one of
them is the Board. So I've enumerated at least the concerns of myself and
many others about
a range of tasks, and addressed them (for well over a year). I've heard
zero feedback
from you about what's wrong with my table, and what I've missed, what
could be improved
and have heard nothing but "it's wrong" (paraphrased) or "it doesn't cover
all the tasks
that of course will get dropped on the Board"? I've done the work to
document
my thoughts. You don't get to then just keep telling me it's wrong without
specifying
what precisely is wrong about it.
>
>
>
>> Ross says the Board pays less attention to these (by implication) than
>> say the 137 TLPs at present. Ross is one Director. Good for him.
>>
>
>I, personally, pay as much attention to the PPMCs as I do to TLPs. I'm
>active in the IPMC and thus have more visibility. That doesn't mean they
>should be expected to by me or by anyone else.
Actually it should be expected -- there is a reason that people like Jim
mentored AOO -- people like Sam joined in, and so did Greg with AOO and
Bloodhound (all 3 are directors). There is a reason that Bertrand has been
very active in the Incubator with Flex and other recent projects. Same as
Rich with Allura -- Roy helps a lot too with clarifications when needed.
I've seen more than a handful of emails from Brett Porter too, so he's
definitely around.
So, sorry Directors too pay just as much attention to PPMCs and to the
Incubator based on their
own individual Incubator and Director hats, and based on their reporting.
>
>
>> I know other directors (Greg IIRC at least) didn't want the Incubator
>> specific podling reports to go away (and to only have the summary
>> at the top of the Incubator report).
>
>
>I don't think any of the Directors want them to go away. But board reports
>are not what the IPMC is about. That is the reporting process within the
>foundation and provides the level of oversight into the PPMCs that the
>board requires. But the IPMC does *much* more than submit a monthly board
>report with a verbatim copy of the podlings individual reports.
>
>
>
>> What i can see, and what I think even Upayavira and Ross
>> agree
>> with -- and you too Benson -- is that there is a grave problem here and
>>it
>> needs' a fixin'. My deconstruction proposal does that.
>>
>
>No, I do not agree there is a grave problem. I have denied that
>repeatedly.
>The IPMC has problems, but in the main it works extremely well.
Fine you don't think it's grave. I don't care how it's classified
('grave',
'purple', 'pink', 'yellow', whatever). There is a problem is what I
probably
should have said.
Look, I hear you that, it's probably possible that folks can come up with
even yet another layer beyond the Shepherds, etc., and that that can goad
people into thinking stuff is fixed around here. Jukka's work was great,
and
I applaud him for it, but as I said at the time, to me we're just adding
more
and more layers to the onion, instead of stripping it down to its roots and
core.
Also it's possible that if you guys continue to add layers, and suggest
mechanisms
for organizing those that are active around here, I may just go back to my
merry
way of getting podlings through the Incubator, graduated, and taught in
the ASF
way.
But it's also possible that the existence of this super/meta committee and
its
super awesome badges that many of the folks here are just too blind to
give them up
will wain on individuals.
>
>[..snip..]
>The first of these two roles is, for the most part, where the IPMC can
>sometimes reach stagnation and can become extremely confusing to podlings
>(getting multiple answers for one question for example). Maybe it is time
>to move this to ComDev and take that area of conflict away from the IPMC.
>This would leave the IPMC to focus on providing the oversight that Jukka's
>new processes have started to heal and Benson is now fine-tuning.
I suggested this in my proposal -- and also creating
http://incubation.apache.org/
which is home to all the documentation/processes, etc. This is step #1
in my proposal BTW (moving to ComDev).
Also note the section titled:
Use Cases for Future Incubator Documentation Requests to ComDev
Cheers,
Chris
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IncubatorDeconstructionProposal
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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov
WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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