Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-02-16 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 1/20/15 9:02 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Justin, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: ...Perhaps change CD10 to this? The project produces royalty free Open Source software for distribution to the public at no charge is straight

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-02-13 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 1/9/15 9:23 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 01/07/2015 04:43 AM, Scott Wilson wrote: I think we also need to discuss whether we expect projects to undertake self-evaluation and reflection, or whether we'd have a process of review involving peers, mentors, shepherds etc. No, I absolutely

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-02-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Apologies for coming in late, my dev@ mail wasn't getting read, oops! Have people considered: * What is the definition of Open Source? Shouldn't we either define this in detail, or explicitly reference the well-known OSI definition? * Code Adding a point noting that the project produces

Re: Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-02-01 Thread Kay Schenk
VERY good! :) On 01/16/2015 09:51 AM, Alex Harui wrote: I think Bertrand’s document is coming along nicely. This is half serious and half for fun, but while it will be great to have a maturity model and top-level authoritative documents on the Apache Way, to me, what would also help is a

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-21 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - CD20 should refer to the source code repository existing in Apache Infrastructure. The project's code is easily discoverable and publicly accessible from an ASF hosted repository. Regards, Dave On Jan 20, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Antoine Levy Lambert wrote: Sure, this should be on our web

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Lefty Leverenz leftylever...@gmail.com wrote: Some trivial edits... Thanks very much! Trivial edits give one that warm fuzzy feeling that the content is generally ok ;-) -Bertrand

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Justin, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: ...Perhaps change CD10 to this? The project produces royalty free Open Source software for distribution to the public at no charge is straight from the from the ASF Bylaws at

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-20 Thread Justin Mclean
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: Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-01-17 Thread Vincent Keunen
Excellent! As I see: Scout un jour, scout toujours! seems to be true in several cultures. ;-) Just as the two Steves did not anticipate that the Apple company they initially created for computers would someday be involved with music (and the legal problems with the Apple of the Beatles), I bet

Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-01-16 Thread Alex Harui
I think Bertrand’s document is coming along nicely. This is half serious and half for fun, but while it will be great to have a maturity model and top-level authoritative documents on the Apache Way, to me, what would also help is a way to make important things memorizable. I sure hope I don’t

Re: Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-01-16 Thread Dan Haywood
On 16 January 2015 at 17:51, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: Hope you like it. I like it. A lot. And laugh-out loud funny (well, I thought, anyway). I'm imagining everyone attending a barcamp or ApacheCon solemnly standing up and repeating that oath... Good job, +1 Dan -Alex The

Re: Oaths and Anthems (was Re: A maturity model for Apache projects)

2015-01-16 Thread jan i
On Friday, January 16, 2015, Dan Haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: On 16 January 2015 at 17:51, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com javascript:; wrote: Hope you like it. I like it. A lot. And laugh-out loud funny (well, I thought, anyway). I'm imagining everyone attending a

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-16 Thread Justin Mclean
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

2015-01-15 Thread Phil Steitz
On 1/15/15 3:39 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: ...Missing Q or C thing: The project is not dead. Bugs do not sit forever with no response. Questions get answered on user lists... Thanks - I have reorganized Antoine's

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/15/2015 02:47 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: ...QO30 - do we really want individual projects to have / advertise their own ways to take security reports?... We do not want that, agreed, but as I want the model to

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Phil Steitz
On 1/15/15 3:47 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: ...QO30 - do we really want individual projects to have / advertise their own ways to take security reports?... We do not want that, agreed, but as I want the model to be

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Justin Mclean
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: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: ...Missing Q or C thing: The project is not dead. Bugs do not sit forever with no response. Questions get answered on user lists... Thanks - I have reorganized Antoine's suggestions about this to be QU50 The project

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: ...QO30 - do we really want individual projects to have / advertise their own ways to take security reports?... We do not want that, agreed, but as I want the model to be usable by non-Apache projects as well I'm trying

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-14 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
Phil, I added your points on the wiki page https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApacheProjectMaturityModel Antoine On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: The project is not dead. Bugs do not sit forever with no response. Questions get answered on user lists.

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages... I've written a first draft at https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ApacheProjectMaturityModel I tried to take the comments of this thread into account,

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: ...I imagine this as a function of ComDev, not of the board. That is, it's a community/project strengthening exercise, not a Big Hammer... +1 -Bertrand

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
But that then provides the ability to create a larger eco-system of binary providers. On Jan 6, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Nicolas Lalevée nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org wrote: I would add something about the build of the sources. Because having sources without having a repeatable build or having no

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Scott Wilson
On 7 Jan 2015, at 08:55, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Mike Drob md...@mdrob.com wrote: ...I understand the value of measuring maturity after a project has left the Incubator, but I also don't know that we want to put an additional set of checkboxes on projects.

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Nicolas Lalevée nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org wrote: ...I would add something about the build of the sources. Because having sources without having a repeatable build or having no clue about how to build it, it makes the sources quite useless That might

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: With regard to competitors, I just remind myself that forking is a feature and that community before code means not acting like a competitor. One should not accept the so-called competitor's terms of debate, no matter how much individuals might see and

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Roberto Galoppini
Sent from a miserable mobile device On 07/gen/2015, at 09:26, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: With regard to competitors, I just remind myself that forking is a feature and that community before code means not acting like a competitor.

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 09:04:32AM +, Scott Wilson wrote: On 7 Jan 2015, at 08:55, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Mike Drob md...@mdrob.com wrote: ...I understand the value of measuring maturity after a project has left the Incubator, but I also don't

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Mike Drob
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: Hi, Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can be useful. So let's start - here's my rough initial list of

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Keunen
On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl wrote: ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code release, meaning that

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread sebb
On 6 January 2015 at 18:31, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: ...How about a compromise: distribution of releases and source: publicly, in a _consistent_ manner according to foundation guidelines?...

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Vincent Keunen wrote: On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: convenience binaries are not Apache Releases. Let's not forget OpenOffice and the likes. Having all users compile the source code *may* reduce the installed base. ;-) The binaries OpenOffice makes available

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Tim Williams
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015 Vincent Keunen wrote: On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: convenience binaries are not Apache Releases. Let's not forget OpenOffice and the likes. Having all users compile the source code

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2015 Tim Williams wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: The binaries OpenOffice makes available for download from its official site are convenience binaries as per Bertrand's description. We are not going to ask users to build it themselves! We're heading

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
I would add something about the build of the sources. Because having sources without having a repeatable build or having no clue about how to build it, it makes the sources quite useless. I had some troubles recently with a project. Its build depends on a resource which is not available

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Ted Dunning
These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread jan i
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has no place in Apache projects. Private lists have very limited appropriate uses and that policy has served Apache very well. +1 jan i On

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:48, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/01/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: projects unfortunately have a tendency to use their private lists for much more than committer votes and security issues, which I find is bad practice. If you as a project had a

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 Jan 2015, at 18:09, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: These are *open* source. Plotting strategy for marketing on a private list has

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread jan i
On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: On 2015-01-06 18:53, Vincent Keunen wrote: Good idea. I would just remove the only from Releases: source code only. Maybe say Releases: source code at the minimum ? It's not a problem to have some projects also release

A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can be useful. So let's start - here's my rough initial list of items: Code: open, discoverable, fully public history, documented provenance Quality:

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Marcel Offermans
On 6 Jan 2015 at 19:01:01, Daniel Gruno (humbed...@apache.org) wrote: On 2015-01-06 18:53, Vincent Keunen wrote:  Good idea.    I would just remove the only from Releases: source code only.  Maybe say Releases: source code at the minimum ? It's not a problem  to have some projects also release

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Keunen
Good idea. I would just remove the only from Releases: source code only. Maybe say Releases: source code at the minimum ? It's not a problem to have some projects also release binaries, is it? Shouldn't there be also something about a minimum documentation? Not necessarily doc on source

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl wrote: ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code release, meaning that it should not contain any binaries. Since

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: ...How about a compromise: distribution of releases and source: publicly, in a _consistent_ manner according to foundation guidelines?... Works for me. -Bertrand

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-06 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-06 19:15, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi Marcel, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Marcel Offermans marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl wrote: ...Since the only official releases *are* source releases the statement “source code only” probably applies to the source code release, meaning that