Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ant elder wrote: > Your second suggestion sounds like the thing to do to me - separating > IPMC-ship and Mentor-ship - that would solve several of the problems > we've being having including this one, it would open up a much bigger > pool of potential mentors, and

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > ...As to whether such lists should be encouraged for new podlings (probably by > putting a stub in the proposal template alongside the other lists), I can't > say that I have a strong opinion IIUC Noah's proposal goes further and sugge

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:35 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ant elder wrote: >> ...Your second suggestion sounds like the thing to do to me - separating >> IPMC-ship and Mentor-ship... > ...I'd like to > try this, perhaps as a sort of experiment like we've done for other

[jira] [Created] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether "Apache DeltaSpike" is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread John D. Ament (JIRA)
John D. Ament created PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: -- Summary: Establish whether "Apache DeltaSpike" is a suitable name Key: PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > As I said before I'm currently against having mentors who are not > Incubator PMC members, As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see bottom of [1]).This may exclude people with practical experie

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > ...As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to > become > a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache member (see bottom of [1])... you don't - Apache members can become IPMC members just by asking, but others

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > As I said before I'm currently against having mentors who are not > > Incubator PMC members, > > As an aside it seems (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to > become a IPMC member you first need to be an Apache mem

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Benson Margulies
I suppose that as chair I ought to be heard from here. I've been off for Passover for a bit. In my view, the IPMC manifests two problems. I'd like to label them as 'operational' and 'decision-making'. This thread is about decision-making, but with some people seeing using terms like 'disfunctional

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether "Apache DeltaSpike" is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg (JIRA)
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2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg (JIRA)
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Fwd: [VOTE] Recommending DeltaSpike for Graduation to an Apache Top Level Project

2013-03-27 Thread John D. Ament
FYI, Apache DeltaSpike looking to graduate soon. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Struberg Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:35 PM Subject: [VOTE] Recommending DeltaSpike for Graduation to an Apache Top Level Project To: "deltaspike-us...@incubator.apache.org" < deltaspike-us...@incu

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 (binding) On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then > the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. > > A few releases were made and the status page has been completed: > http://i

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > ...We now kindly ask the IPMC to review our findings and vote on the > Onami graduation... +1 -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apach

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg
+1 (binding) LieGrue, strub - Original Message - > From: Christian Grobmeier > To: "general@incubator.apache.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:04 AM > Subject: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD > > Hi all, > > Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months.

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > We now kindly ask the IPMC to review our findings and vote on the > Onami graduation. > > [ X ] +1, yes propose the graduation of Apache Onami to the board > [ ] -1, no, don't let Apache Onami graduate, because... +1 -- Rich Bowen rb

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons why it might be a good idea for some projects? What would I have to do to add that? If I prepare a patch to the docs, would it be CTR or RTC? On 27 Marc

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But > perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons > why it might be a good idea for some projects? Yes, sounds good to me if it's just a suggestion

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > Or it might 'work', but some might feel that this large, > diffuse, group, operating by majority rules is either inconsistent with > Apache policy or a bad example for the podlings. Thats more how i see it. Using consensus instead of

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
The incubator is currently of a scale that means it can no longer operate as a standard consensus driven PMC. It is not that much smaller than the TLPs part of the foundation. Perhaps it would make sense to see how the model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: ASF Members

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 March 2013 15:54, ant elder wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: > Ok, i propose we have an "experiment" [1] where we try having a mentor > or two who are not PMC members. Have some other experienced mentors > helping to make sure nothing unfixable can go wr

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> I am under the impression that having a low-volume, high-signal >> announcement channel is generally beneficial to most projects that try it. > > I agree that such lists are useful.

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 27 March 2013 15:54, ant elder wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Benson Margulies >> wrote: >> Ok, i propose we have an "experiment" [1] where we try having a mentor >> or two who are not PMC members. Have some other experienc

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But > perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons > why it might be a good idea for some projects? > > What would I have to do to add that? If I pre

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether "Apache DeltaSpike" is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Jason Porter (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13615470#comment-13615470 ] Jason Porter commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: --- IIRC, Dan was the

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Greg Reddin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Perhaps it would make sense to see how the > model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: > ... [snip] ... > Why can't the IPMC work like that? Well, to a large extent it does. Here > are the same items expressed from

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 16:28, Luciano Resende wrote: > > > Do the general announce list lag behind because there are individual lists > ? > I see no reason why they would. On 27 March 2013 16:31, Luciano Resende wrote: > > The minute that is in the guides, I'm positive that 100% of new > podlings p

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 16:48, Noah Slater wrote: > On 27 March 2013 16:28, Luciano Resende wrote: >> >> >> Do the general announce list lag behind because there are individual lists >> ? >> > > I see no reason why they would. Well, I found that sending a separate e-mail to announce@a.o was useful for

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 17:15, sebb wrote: > > Well, I found that sending a separate e-mail to announce@a.o was > useful for two reasons: > - more likely to get bounces; wanted to distinguish those from TLP list > bounces > - people sometime reply all > - announce@a.o requires an ASF address; I use GMai

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something > like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it > must also be copied to annou...@apache.org, and vice-versa. > > This is how I expect all ann

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Putting it in policy is probably as close as we can get to automation. ;) On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something > > like: if you use a project-specific ann

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: >> So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something >> like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it >> must also be copied to annou...@apache.

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: >> So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something >> like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it >> must also be copied to annou.

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 Mar 2013 16:43, "Greg Reddin" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Ross Gardler > wrote: > > > Perhaps it would make sense to see how the > > model that has scaled well for the foundation can be applied here: > > > > ... [snip] ... > > > > Why can't the IPMC work like that? Well, to

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg
My personal experience: There are a few people registered to annou...@apache.org, but there is a low registration rate for the respective subproject lists. At least not for most projects. Thus said: if you would create an announce list for all projects and send the ANN mails only to those lis

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 18:37, Mark Struberg wrote: > My personal experience: There are a few people registered to > annou...@apache.org, but there is a low registration rate for the > respective subproject lists. At least not for most projects. > That's to be expected, though, right? We have something

[VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread Matthieu Morel
Hi everyone, this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed for RC3 with 6+1's with 5 of them binding: +1 IPMC (phunt) +1PPMC (mmorel, kishoreg, leoneu, fpj) +1 committer non PPMC (dferro) Here is the vote thread on

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. > > > A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed for RC3 with 6+1's > with 5 of them binding: > > +1 IPMC (phunt) > +1PPMC (mmorel, kishoreg, leoneu, fp

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, this is a very interesting proposal. Let me ask a few questions. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Why shouldn't the IPMC create an equivalent to the one item in the above > governance structure that is missing today. That is why shouldn't it have > an equivalent of "ASF

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from a mobile device, please excuse mistakes and brevity On 27 Mar 2013 20:12, "Christian Grobmeier" wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a very interesting proposal. Let me ask a few questions. > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler > wrote: > > Why shouldn't the IPMC create an equivalent

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread Matthieu Morel
Thanks for the feedback, I replied inline. On Mar 27, 2013, at 21:00 , sebb wrote: > On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. >> >> >> A vote was held on developer mailing list and it passed for R

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Niall Pemberton
+1 Niall On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then > the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. > > A few releases were made and the status page has been completed: > http://incub

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Benson Margulies
The first thing I'd like to do, coordination-wise, is to call a vote on the proposal to decide things by majority. I think that this would help with some of the problems we hit, and we can meanwhile continue to discuss larger structural changes. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Ross Gardler wrote

Re: [VOTE] S4 0.6.0 Incubating Release Candidate 3

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 20:57, Matthieu Morel wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, > > I replied inline. > > On Mar 27, 2013, at 21:00 , sebb wrote: > >> On 27 March 2013 19:07, Matthieu Morel wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> >>> this is a call for a vote to release Apache S4 0.6.0 incubating. >>> >>> >>> A

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> One alternative to going for full-on majority voting is to recognize that a >> larger group is much more likely to have "noisy vetoes" by requiring that >> successful votes have n po

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Joseph Schaefer
This whole exercise is pointless. Just drop the notion of vetoes for all IPMC votes and carry on as before. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Dunning wrot

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Doug Cutting
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > I think it should be 3/4 majority. I agree that supermajority would be better than simple majority here. Moving to simple majority seems too radical. Over time it's more prone to building a PMC that cannot easily agree on things. If cons

Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus

2013-03-27 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Dunning > wrote: > >> One alternative to going for full-on majority voting is to recognize > that a > >> larger group is much more likely

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Apache Onami as TLD

2013-03-27 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 (binding). Good luck! Cheers, Chris On 3/26/13 12:04 AM, "Christian Grobmeier" wrote: >Hi all, > >Apache Onami entered incubation before more than 3 months. Since then >the community has proven to be pretty active and healthy. > >A few releases were made and the status page has been comple

[jira] [Commented] (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31) Establish whether "Apache DeltaSpike" is a suitable name

2013-03-27 Thread Charles Moulliard (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13616084#comment-13616084 ] Charles Moulliard commented on PODLINGNAMESEARCH-31: Name is

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >... > I don't believe we should force an announce@ list on anybody. But I do > think it might be a good idea to mention a few of the standard lists that > projects might consider requesting. No strong opinion. Generally, I don't think podlings