Re: Regarding the Apache Committee Report Helper Website

Hi, The statistics alone are fairly meaningless in a report. What I like to see in a report are more details about the community and what it is doing to attract more committers. Kind Regards, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [PR] Propose "why" folder that we will keep as "advisors" knowledge base [comdev-working-groups]

HI, > An implicit +1 from the RM is not something that should be encouraged. I agree, but some projects still do it. > Also the minimum length of time for voting is 72 hours, except for > urgent security-related releases. A few projects have longer times for voting, so they still fit within

Re: [jira] [Commented] (COMDEV-543) Sharpeners use cases

Hi, I added the list because I had it at hand so it could be used to improve the existing document; if I had time at the moment, I would have written it in the style of the existing document, but sadly, I do not at the moment. Re “too many release candidates”, one thing I have observed is that

[jira] [Commented] (COMDEV-543) Sharpeners use cases

[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-543?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=17817389#comment-17817389 ] Justin Mclean commented on COMDEV-543: -- I agree guiding projects on what to do in these situations

[jira] [Commented] (COMDEV-543) Sharpeners use cases

[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-543?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=17817176#comment-17817176 ] Justin Mclean commented on COMDEV-543: -- Here's a list I have if it helps - theres some overlap

Anyone interested in an ALC in Sydney?

Hi, I thought I had asked this before, but I can’t find the email. Is anyone interested in helping out with an ALC in Sydney? I know there’re not many ASF PMC members in Sydney, but there should be enough user interest. Kind Regards, Justin

Re: Community-run MVP programs at the ASF

Hi, Is seems to me the real issue here is that the commit bar for the Cassandra project is too high. Reduce it, and you don’t need MVP programs or anything similar. Calling it an Ambassador program doesn’t make it better. Calling it “Cassandra Ambassador Program” is even worse as that implies

Re: Proposal: Consolidate the various pages about voting/deciding

Hi, Note that you also need to understand some of the terms as described here [1] to understand that page [2]. Kind Regards, Justin 1. https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html 2. https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting

Re: [HELP WANTED] Find person to exchange and sign gpg key in Shanghai, China

HI, > According to "How to link into a public web of trust"[2], we have to prepare a > hard copy of the key fingerprint(handwritten or printed ?) and readworld > identification in face-to-face meeting. This is not a requirement for being a release manager, just a nice to have. Kind Regards,

Re: Where to Get an Updated Graphic with List of ASF Projects Logos

Hi, > How does it pull them? While Logging Services doesn’t have a logo Log4j does > but isn’t there. See https://www.apache.org/logos/about.html Justin

Re: What are best practices for hosting content on project website?

Hi, Projects should strive to be vendor-neutral. Putting up branded videos may give the impression that there's a relationship between the project and the company that doesn't exist and IMO it would be best to avoid that. I notice that the same was done in Kafka's release notes which is

Re: Proposal to add "release requirements" check

Hi, > However that assumes that you know where to find the download page(s). > It also assumes that projects update their download page(s) to only > show current releases. It does indeed assume that, and a few other things. Currently policy doesn't specify what the download page URL should be,

Re: Proposal to add "release requirements" check

Hi, > Purging old releases needs at least two data sources: > - the list of files on downloads.apache.org > (or the dist.a.o source). > This is trivial to obtain. > - the list of current versions for each release. This is the most > difficult part. The check dist

Re: Proposal to add "release requirements" check

Hi, I've written some Python scripts to check download pages and release areas for incubating projects. [1] They work in most cases if you know the download URL and the project has a single product. You can find them here - feel free to use or suggest changes. Kind Regards, Justin 1.

Online Open Source Hackathon November 22nd to 26th

Hi, I’m involved in helping out an online Open Source Hackathon that will be held on 22nd to 26th November. For more information please see https://opensourcehack.cbrin.com.au. International teams are welcome to apply and we don’t ask that you hand over any IP. It would be great to see some

Re: Update to ICLA to include github id

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/merging-multiple-user-accounts On Sun, 9 May 2021, 2:10 pm Roman Shaposhnik, wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Craig Russell wrote: > > > > Hi Roman, > > > > I understand that GitHub now recommends (not

Re: Update to ICLA to include github id

Hi, Since recent projects trend to use GitHub and GitHub names instead of real names. It can make it hard to match ICLAs to real people so I think it makes sense to have it on the ICLA form. Best to probably make it optional as not everyone have a GitHub account. Thanks Justin On Sun, 9 May

Re: Importing external codebase which is not under APL

Hi, > Thanks for replying, are you with ASF legal? I help out there (and currently assistant VP), but I’m not a lawyer or anything like that. > Hashicorp CTO and their management agreed over email, which I could forward > over our public lists or ask them to send a confirmation on the voting

Re: Importing external codebase which is not under APL

Hi, The MPL license is not compatible with the ALv2. Do you have a link to where they agreed to change the license? Did all of the previous contributors the code agree to the license change? Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe,

Re: [ALC] ALC Indore Event (April 2021)

Hi, > 2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/QhjZCQ I noticed the stats are not quite up to date. I have a little script that I use to generate ASF stats, that injects the values into the slides I use. Currently there are 234 IPMC members and 36 podlings. > 3. >

Re: [ALC] ALC Indore Event (April 2021)

Hi, > For week 1, the content will be almost similar to the slides shared in > our previous events [2] and [3]. For week 2, we are referring to the > existing resources of Apache OFBiz[4] for content. > > 1. https://s.apache.org/alc-indore > 2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/IEp4CQ > 3.

Re: [ALC] ALC Indore Event (April 2021)

Hi, > The ALC [1] Indore Chapter [2] is planning to organize numerous workshops > on 'The Apache Way 101'. Through this workshop, we will spread awareness > about the The Apache Way and try to help people make their first > contribution to any of the Apache project. During these workshops, we

Re: New Apache.org product concept: Digital Merit Badges

Hi, If it something fun and aimed at building community and opt-in then I’d say go for it. > Here's the badges I have earned at Fedora: > > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/user/rcb > There's some fun ones there. I’d like to hand out a few of these

Re: New Apache.org product concept: Digital Merit Badges

Hi, Other foundations such as the linux foundation do have badges for their training courses and certification[1], but I don’t know of any that have badges for making contributions. Openhub does track contribution and awards people a kudos score and badges based on contribution. e.g. [2] One

Re: [Mentor ML] How to subscribe mentor mail list?

Hi, You might find it easier to subscribe/unsubscribe by using Whimsy: https://whimsy.apache.org/committers/subscribe This will also tell you what you are subscribed to: https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committer/__self__ Thanks, Justin

Re: Migration and consolidation helm charts for ASF projects from helm/charts to apache/charts git

Hi, > I am not even sure myself if I am the only one who feels the disconnection > between reality and the current policies, that's why I started the thread > here. You would not be the only person who set this. People and project are making small steps to correct this. Recently Infra’s

Re: Is there any private mail list for comdev

Hi, Yes there’s a priv...@community.apache.org that the comdev PMC (and all ASF members) have access to. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [ALC] Apache way presentation

Hi, You might want to consider donating this to the Apache training project [1], I had intended to but hadn’t found the cycles yet. Thanks, Justin 1. http://training.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Update information on community.apache.org

Hi, The date should change when the site is updated, please don't update it automatically via JS. Thanks, Justin On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, 09:18 Austin Bennett, wrote: > When looking at that code for the page, I had thought that perhaps would > not hard-code the year, but would use a javascript

Re: ASF Project Licensing

Hi, There is also the option of having the code re-licensed (with the owners agreement) if it’s not under a compatible license.May projects that come to the Incubator didn’t have their original codebase under the Apache license. Thanks, Justin

Re: NuttX 2020 conference

Hi, Sorry it’s May not Match. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org

NuttX 2020 conference

Hi, A project Apache NuttX. which has just entered the Incubator is planning a small conference in Tokyo in March.[1] This has been in the planning stages before the project joined the Incubator. There are PPMC members on the conference committee, but currently the conference wouldn’t meet

Re: starting up a new project

Hi, The best place to start that discussion is on general@incubator.apache,org. There you can take a look at other proposals and the conversations around them. [1] The Incubator doesn’t accept all projects, with the main requirement being that teh project much have a code base and a community

Re: Logo Display

Hi, A few years back I made an app to guess the apache project logo.[1][2] I could update it if people want. It’s all client side, logo need to be manually updated to hide the names. Thanks, Justin 1. https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheLogos 2.

Re: Booth Volunteers Needed for ApacheCon NA Las Vegas

Hi, If someone with edit right could add Apache Training as well that would be appreciated. It has talks at ApacheCon NA. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands,

Re: Booth Volunteers Needed for ApacheCon NA Las Vegas

HI, > Is there are repository/directory of the project logos / stickers? Of the logos yes [1]. Justin 1. http://apache.org/logos/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Booth Volunteers Needed for ApacheCon NA Las Vegas

HI, I’m unable to edit the page. Put me down for some time. Also can you add PLC4X, IoTDB and Mynewt to the sticker list. They all have talks at ApacheCon NA. I’ll look through my notes for what sticker run out early but off top of my head it was the Apache feather, Spark and Tomcat. Thanks,

Re: Missing podling logos

Hi, My second list for the logos [1] had a few errors as it assumed .svg files existed for all projects. Try this one instead: Logos misisng: amaterasu annotator batchee brpc datasketches dlab flagon gobblin hudi iotdb marvin omid pinot ratis rya s2graph samoa sdap shardingsphere singa tamaya

Missing podling logos

Hi, I was going to generate a slide containing all the podlings logos, however the current list seem a little out of date [1]. Mentors it would be great to remind you podlings to add a logo to [1] instructions are at the same link. Or if any PPMC member notices this just go ahead and do it!

Re: [Discuss] Attributing contributions to commercial vendors investing in projects

Hi, > Lots of NOTICE f iles give attribution to the pre-Apache project owner. Why > not let other companies add their logo to NOTICE if it is important to them? > > Maybe allow these two things and see if that makes the corporations happy. IMO (and policy states that )NOTICE is there for

Re: on "meritocracy"

Hi, Slightly off topic but relevant. One think we could do is look at other foundations and communities and see what they have done that has worked for them. I come across this interesting artifice this morning [1]. Note it includes the steps that community took to build a diverse community,

Re: Help us understand the effects of developers' personality on collaboration in OSS development

Hi, JFYI - And it look like they may of just spammed a whole lot of people. I just got an unsolicited email from them. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands,

Re: Onboarding Experience, Knowledge Architecture, Events and D

Hi, This summary may help [1] with a few things. Thanks, Justin 1. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DefaultProjectGuidelines - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Onboarding Experience, Knowledge Architecture, Events and D

Hi, > The phrasing at https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting > is "While > in most cases the chair works with other PMC members to write the report, > the report is ultimately the chair's responsibility to complete and submit.” It

Re: Onboarding Experience, Knowledge Architecture, Events and D

Hi, > The PMC doesn't select a chair (it doesn't have the authority), but it > motions the board to appoint a specific person as chair, sort of like > introducing legislation in a parliament but not being able to vote on it. The > board then votes and either ratifies that motion, or it says

Re: Onboarding Experience, Knowledge Architecture, Events and D

Hi, Also another missed point that in some projects (and more common in incubating projects) is that committees = PMC Thanks Justin On Thu., 20 Dec. 2018, 12:19 pm Justin Mclean HI, > > Nice presentation. > > Here my feedback on this some of this is more opinion (there’s many A

Re: Resources for attracting a crowd

Hi, > I've been working on a project for 4-5 years now which I think would make a > good Apache project, at least in terms of it being valuable, high-quality > software. We're using it internally for our production systems at work, but > the code is open (hosted on GitHub). Our process to date

Re: Gathering all project logos in high res (or scalable) format

Hi, I assume you're aware of [1] (lowres images) and [2] (a bit of fun)? Thanks, Justin 1. http://apache.org/img/ 2. https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheLogos - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org

Apache Policy Quiz

Hi, A while back I posted a little logo game. [1] Well after a few comments on the incubator list around projects possibly graduating without fully understanding ASF policy, and some issues with recent release got me thinking is there another way we can present this information. So I made a

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, > Don't you hate that auto spelling correction? Every day. > I'm bringing a PC, my phone and maybe an old tablet. Send me the specs offline and I may have a device that I can test it on and/or just try it on the old tablet and see how it goes. Thanks, Justin

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, > We are going to have an Apache booth at the Paris Open Source Summit in a > couple of weeks so having this app available would be a really good way to > engage people. Just out of interest what are do you need to run it on? It shovel work fine but it probably would be good to test it

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, I’ve just made a slightly improved version [1] that show a result page, displaying into about the project and the unburied image if you got it right or wrong. Any other suggestions, feedback etc just reply here or raise a GitHub issue. Thanks, Justin 1.

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, > But it's too easy when the project's name is in its logo. Some could be > blurred out, but some are essential to the logo. Select "Show logos with blurred text” on the first page and you’ll get exactly that. Thanks for taking a look. Justin

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, > The output is entirety client side HTML / JS so it’s already “HTML5”. BTW here in all its JS ugliness [1]. The debug version is easier to work with :-) Thanks, Justin 1. https://github.com/PierreSmits/ApacheLogos/blob/master/compiled/GuessLogo.js

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, Thanks! Any suggestions for improvement (esp design wise) please put forward. > I'm wondering if we could upgrade this project with an HTML5 version or a > Unity version that could be very nice! The output is entirety client side HTML / JS so it’s already “HTML5”. Thanks, Justin

Re: Creating an ASF Project Game Application ?

Hi, It’s been a couple of weeks since this thread has died down but I found a few of hours today to finish off a functional proof of concept version of the “Guess the Apache logo” application. The source code (nothing fancy or complex) is here [1], and you can see it in action here [2]. It’s

Re: Volunteers needed: Apache track at solutions.hamburg 12-14th Sep. 2018

Hi, Would also like to be involved again (it was good fun) but this far out because of the travel distance it’s a little hard to commit to it. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For

Re: Solutions.Hamburg: Invitation to provide ApacheContent

Hi, > Without asking me first, Chris told Solutions.Hamburg that I would > take over the Apache coordination of the conference. > > * Everyone who has volunteered to give a talk sends me their title(s) > and abstract(s) and bio(s?) by midnight on Thursday evening (timezone: > CET), thus

Re: Signing contracts?

Hi, > The last word got me thinking. Who would be signing this type of contract? I > know that I am definitely not allowed to sign stuff on behalf of the ASF. Probably VP comedy? But if not I sure another VP can probably be found to sign it. Thanks, Justin

Re: Solutions.Hamburg: Invitation to provide ApacheContent

Hi, > I am willing to do a lot of the work for this, but definitely not all of it. > So, if there are people willing to help, please step forward. Otherwise I’ll > just contact the guys from that conference and cancel this project. I assume at this point is just getting enough people to put

Re: Speak at Open Source Summit Europe, CFP Closes July 8th

Hi, I was thinking of submitting a talk or two and/or could handle the incubator talk. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org

Re: Solutions.Hamburg: Invitation to provide ApacheContent

Hi, > That said, having a top-level 'Apache Way' talk is important, and having > a talk about the Incubator is also greatly desired. I would be willing to give a talk about the incubator if needed. It’s a long way for me to travel (from Australia) but it’s a good excuse to visit a city I’ve

Re: Help Wanted: ApacheCon content committee

Hi, Reviewed many ApacheCon talks and can do so again if you need. Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org

Re: Ask for licenses

Hi, And this is another good plain english site [1] Thanks, Justin 1. http://choosealicense.com/licenses/

Re: ApacheCon CFP review committee

Hi, > Rich, I only got access to review ApacheCon (formerly Core) submissions; no > the Big Data ones. Same here (I think). If we find big data talk submitted to core should we a) ask them to be moved to big data OR b) reject them. Seem to recall we had this issue last time as well. Thanks,

Re: ApacheCon CFP, review committee needed

Hi, > I need a small committee of assistants to help rate the talks and select > the schedule. Please let me know ASAP if you wish to participate. I can help out if you need but if you allready have enough people I’m good with that. Thanks, Justin PS Have helped out in the past ApacheCons and

Re: [VOTE] Ripple Release 0.9.32

Hi, +1 binding I checked: - signatures and hashed good - filename contains incubating - DISCLAIMER exits - LICENSE and NOTICE good - no unexpected binaries - all source files have headers I did’t have an environment set that could compile the project. Would be nice to have pointer on how to

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

Hi, for distribution to the public at no charge is straight from the from the ASF Bylaws at http://apache.org/foundation/bylaws.html so I'm not keen on changing that. Understand. No a real issue either way, just pointing out it might hinder adoption outside of Apache. Thanks, Justin

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

Hi, I thought that was part of the Open Source definition? Not quite (AFAIK), there's no royalties allowed on redistribution but that doesn't mean you can't charge for it either initially or when redistributing it as part of a bundle. The license shall not restrict any party from selling or

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

Hi, Some (very) minor things. CD10 - distributed at no charge to the public. while this may be true at Apache it doesn't have to be the case. 3rd parties wanting to this model may find this a stumbling block. CD40 - Perhaps a footnote? for code donated to Apache the history before Apache may

Re: ApacheCon Schedule announced: Help still needed

HI, * Identify speakers that are speaking twice at once, or back-to-back I have two talks back to back on the same day (Monday 350 + 4:50) but I'm good with that. Thanks, Justin

Re: ApacheCon - Uncategorized talks

Hi, Just moved an un-categorised talk to the Flex track. I was looking a bit lonely in there by myself :-) Justin

Re: Understanding the commit-then-review workflow

Hi, Typically in the Apache projects, committers (folks elected by the project who have commit privileges) have binding vetoes. Actually the default is that only PMC members can veto code changes see under Binding votes from [1], but project guidelines may state otherwise. Justin 1.

Re: Understanding the commit-then-review workflow

Hi, Ugh. That looks garbled to me. What exactly is a code modification vote? Any committer should be allowed to -1 a commit (with reasons) Any committer can vote -1 it's just not normally binding (depending on project guidelines), I certainly can't see it being ignored when it does