Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Flex Bylaws

2013-10-01 Thread Greg Reddin
Hi all, I hate to muddy the waters here, but I'll add this: When Tiles became a TLP we had the bylaws clause in our resolution. I don't remember all the context, but I'm pretty sure the objections came from some board members at the time (2006). The objections were that the ASF bylaws are the byla

Re: [DISCUSS] Apache Flex Bylaws

2013-10-01 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Erik de Bruin wrote: > I very much prefer to set a bar for active. The only time the inactive > PMC members come out of the closet is if they are rallied to vote for > a controversial issue. If you're not involved in the project > (anymore), I don't think you should

Re: LinkedIn requests

2013-11-06 Thread Greg Reddin
I agree. Reject. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > >> Every once in a while we get an "Invitation to connect on LinkedIn" email >> for moderation. > Reject I say. They could be phishing spam or sent by someone just sending out > blanket requests (connect to all my "fr

Re: [DRAFT] Apache Flex December 2013 Report

2013-12-03 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > I'm wondering if the board really does appoint the char as much as > approves the PMC recommendation. If we change chairs, we only provide > notice and wait 72 hours. AFAIK, there is no action from the board > required. This could just be anot

Time for Change

2014-04-01 Thread Greg Reddin
Hi all, It is with mixed emotions that I must admit that it's time for me to step down from the Flex PMC. It was an honor to be a mentor to this project through incubation and I can say without reservation that this community has been fully integrated into Apache. It's time for me to recognize tha

Re: PMC volunteers for mailing list moderation?

2013-01-07 Thread Greg Reddin
I think I'm a mod. If not please add me: gred...@apache.org Sent from my mobile device. On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:51 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > Could we have 1-2 additional volunteers from the Flex PMC to moderate > the project's mailing lists? I'm going to step down from that now tha

Re: [Marketing] - Telling the world that we are a TLP...

2013-01-07 Thread Greg Reddin
Thanks for the work! At first glance it looks good to me, but I didn't get into the details too far. We need to make sure we run it by pr...@apache.org. They will review the release and make sure it meets ASF requirements and they will help us distribute it. Thanks, Greg On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3

Re: [OT] Apache Flex twitter mentions up

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Reddin
That's good press :) Sent from my mobile device. On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Most of it seems to come from this article: > http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/open-source-flex-gets-top-project-status-at-apache.html > > Justin

Re: [Marketing] - Telling the world that we are a TLP...

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > It is very important that press releases be reviewed by press@a.o. > > Has this happened yet? > I mentioned that yesterday and Scott indicated that he's working with Sally. So I think we're in good shape. Greg

Re: [Marketing] - Telling the world that we are a TLP...

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Guthmann, Scott wrote: > I am making this change and then sending this to Sally from ASF (publicity > & media) I'm not sure how much work she'll need to do to our document > before releasing this globally. > > I hope it works & we get a few requests for interviews f

Re: Flex Archive

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Reddin
Probably, since it was an Incubator release, 4.8 won't appear in the /flex archive, rather in the /incubator/flex archive. Greg On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/8/13 2:05 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just took a look at the Flex archive and it is

Re: [TWEET] Official tweet

2013-01-11 Thread Greg Reddin
Looks good! On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Om wrote: > I plan to send this out from the official twitter account. Any > objections/changes? > > *#ApacheFlex 4.9.0 released http://markmail.org/message/fcftgstdmvewcsya. > For easy installation use the Flex SDK installer > http://flex.apache.o

Re: FlexUnit Location

2013-01-11 Thread Greg Reddin
Do we know who owns it? Is that person willing to donate the code to the ASF? On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Michael A. Labriola < labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Michael A. Labriola < > labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > > >That would probably

Re: FlexUnit Location

2013-01-11 Thread Greg Reddin
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Michael A. Labriola < labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > >Do we know who owns it? Is that person willing to donate the code to the > ASF? > > I own it. I donated it. The grant was filed with Apache last august. > I'm sorry. I should've done the research :-) Ok

Re: [Marketing] - Telling the world that we are a TLP...

2013-01-14 Thread Greg Reddin
Thanks, Scott for helping with this! On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Guthmann, Scott < sguthm...@on3solutions.com> wrote: > The Press Release is out. Please spread the word. Please tweet, Please > Blog, Please share on your social networks. > > Please encourage others to join the mailing lis

Re: [OT] The end of the SpiceFactory

2013-01-14 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Michael Schmalle wrote: > JavaScript unfortunately is the only road left. This decade of my life > will be fulfilled if the tortoise can walk passed the hare stuffing his > face with jQuery muffins. Love that comment :-)

Re: [VOTE] Allow tracking of download statistics on flex.apache.org

2013-01-21 Thread Greg Reddin
+1 Sent from my mobile device. On Jan 21, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Om wrote: > Please vote to allow the use of Google Analytics [1] to track download > statistics of Apache Flex source, binaries and Installer artifacts. > > If you have any comments, please reply in this thread: [2] > Here is the JIRA

Re: Donation of Flexmojos

2013-01-24 Thread Greg Reddin
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:12 AM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de < christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Yeah ... the problem is ... could someone please write down what would be > needed? > Hi Chris, After researching this, I believe we need to go through the IP Clearance process. I'm willing to be con

Re: AW: Donation of Flexmojos

2013-01-24 Thread Greg Reddin
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:39 AM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de < christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Well I think there never was a real formal process at Flexmojos ... at > first you sent Velo patches and he applied them and after going to Githup > all was handled by Pull requests from other users R

Re: AW: AW: Donation of Flexmojos

2013-01-25 Thread Greg Reddin
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:35 AM, christofer.d...@c-ware.de < christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > So ... does this have any impact on the plans to donate? Is it now harder > to donate or does it make stuff even easier? > To my knowledge the current licensing strategy of the product has no bearing

Re: Latest on FlexJS

2013-02-25 Thread Greg Reddin
I don't see a problem with writing about this on the wiki or pointing interested developers to the downloads. It'd be a different story if things stay that way for a year and it becomes a de facto release but for prototyping I don't see an issue. Greg Sent from my mobile device. On Feb 25, 2

Re: [MENTORS] Voting on code donations

2013-03-25 Thread Greg Reddin
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > Hi Former Mentors, > > We’ve had some generous offers of code donations. I noticed that some > projects have votes about whether to accept code donations, but we haven’t > for any Adobe donations to Apache Flex. Is voting optional? > I thin

Re: Flash/Flex Developer

2013-03-28 Thread Greg Reddin
Hi Mauricio, To subscribe to the list, send an email to dev-subscr...@flex.apache.org. Your name has been added to the "allow" list so you can send mail to the list, but you won't get messages back unless you subscribe. Thanks, Greg On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Mauricio Sanchez < mauri...@

Re: [DISCUSS] How do we want to handle Whiteboard?

2013-04-04 Thread Greg Reddin
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Om wrote: > Personally, I like the option of working on GitHub for the whiteboard. In > a way it levels the playing field of committer vs. non-committer. This > could foster more community involvement. I like the idea of using Github for all the reasons mentio

Re: {DRAFT] April Board Report

2013-04-08 Thread Greg Reddin
Alex, I think I've seen comments from board members that they'd rather you not include the "nothing to report" sections. If I was producing the report I'd leave them out. Good report though. Thanks. Greg On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > BTW, I think we report quarterly aft

Re: Whiteboard on GitHub - update

2013-04-26 Thread Greg Reddin
I'm a moderator. Assuming the mails don't cause the spam filter to be engaged, I'll moderate them through. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:25 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > Om, > > > > Maybe I wasn't clear. I think a key aspect of whiteboar

Re: Whiteboard on GitHub - update

2013-04-26 Thread Greg Reddin
r 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala > wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Greg Reddin wrote: >> >>> I'm a moderator. Assuming the mails don't cause the spam filter to be >>> engaged, I'll moderate them through. >>

Re: [DISCUSS] Github based Whiteboard proposal

2013-05-06 Thread Greg Reddin
Just wanted to note that I think this proposal alleviates my concerns about using github for whiteboards. If I can find time I'm going to search other apache archives to see if there are other things we need to consider. But for now I feel like this supports apache's desires for open development

Re: [PROPOSAL] Swiz Framework Donation to Apache Flex

2013-05-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Carlos Rovira wrote: > Hi, > > I want to propose the donation of Swiz Framework to Apache Flex. > This would be awesome in my opinion :-) Just remember that the donation process could get complicated if Chris doesn't hold the copyright to all the code to be donat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Swiz Framework Donation to Apache Flex

2013-05-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:33 AM, dude wrote: > Good luck, but I'd rather see Parsley integrated into Apache Flex. > That's the only concern I'd have about the donation. I know Swiz is one framework among several. So we'd have to manage it carefully to keep from alienating part of the community.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Swiz Framework Donation to Apache Flex

2013-05-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Roland Zwaga wrote: > On 28 May 2013 17:33, dude wrote: > > > Good luck, but I'd rather see Parsley integrated into Apache Flex. > > > > > > Personally, the above response shows exactly the reason why I think there > shouldn't be any > application framework integ

Re: [PROPOSAL] Swiz Framework Donation to Apache Flex

2013-05-28 Thread Greg Reddin
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of being > integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? Personally, I'd > be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of Flex-related code > even if there is

Re: [VOTE] Swiz Framework Donation to Apache Flex

2013-05-29 Thread Greg Reddin
+1 (binding) On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Carlos Rovira wrote: > After proposal thread (http://markmail.org/message/jtedmmx5djqen52l),comes > the vote thread. > > This thread is to decide if we finally adopt Swiz Framework under Apache > Flex, since there is multiple opinions in the Apache F

Re: Swiz Donation: Next Steps (was Re: [VOTE][RESULTS] Oprtional MVC/IOC Frameworks Donation: Swiz Framework Donation)

2013-06-06 Thread Greg Reddin
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Carlos Rovira < carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com> wrote: > hehe I only want to say that history is written in the internet so is easy > to prove that Chris Scott is the author, but I see that he must prove it > himself. > We could not in good conscience accept a dona